Karamba,

Poverty is a bad disease. Is only poverty what makes the people of Kiang to vote for APRC. Is only poverty that makes you support your enemy. Baba Jobe and the gang have succeed in buying the poor people of Kiang. The only reason for UDP loosing this By-election is money. The amount of money they have pumb in this election is too much.

G-lers, all those of us willing to see the back of Jammeh come Octocber 2001, have lot of work to do.You know that the UDP or any of opposition parties in the Gambia presently can remove Jammeh from power as things are now. These (APRC) people are very rich and they can easily use money to buy our poor farmers. Just think of this; How on earth can one vote for a party what is uncapable of buying your groundnut for the past three years. The answer is easy, POVERTY.

From now on is our responsibility to sponsor the opposition if there is any chance of removing Jammeh from power. God bless The Gambia ang all Gambians even Jammeh included.

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>Subject: Re: By-Election UpdateBREAKING NEWS
>Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 15:14:57 EST
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>I am dissappointed at the apparent loss of the UDP seat in Kiang. Initial
>indications are that more than a thousand registered voters did not vote in
>this particular district. The idea that all of a sudden a thousand people
>decided they would not vote can only be plausibly attributed to vote buying.
>A surefire way to determine an outcome is to buttress a limited support base
>with an aggressive campaign of ensuring that gaulible supporters of your
>opponent are neutralised with last minute cash inducements. While true
>democrats would abhore this kind of practice, the ultimate responsibility
>lies with the person who would exchange his right to vote with a dollar or
>two. It cannot all simply be explained away as a lack of understanding of the
>clear and present sets of issues facing our country. If a poor farmer can
>choose to vote for a gov't that has brought much misery on him in all these
>years for no reason other than a last minute D25 payoff, I would suggest we
>would get the kind of outcome we have seen today in Kiang . It is those who
>choose to vote for their candidate of choice purely out of their own volition
>and faith in them that must keep us all working for a better Gambia.
>Karamba
>
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