Political punditry aside, common sense tells us that Yaya is finished. If there is a free and fair election in the country, there is no way Yaya can win a legal luminary like Ousainou Darboe. While APRC is wasting time spreading disinformation and ridiculous predictions about a Yaya victory, the Alliance is talking directly to the citizens telling them how an Alliance government is going to SOLVE their problems. Yaya is finished because contrary to conventional wisdom in certain quarters, Gambian voters are a very savvy and independent lot. We witnessed how incumbents have been defeated in Parliamentary elections in the country on numerous occasions. Gambian voters understand the issues because they are living it. No political pundit or intellectual need to tell our farmers that APRC is NOT good for them. Farmers were happily selling their crops every year before Baabaa Jobe and his thugs stormed the Alimenta premises and drove them out of the country. Our farmers have seen the APRC manifesto and there are no solutions there to solve the farmers’ problems. Our farmers know that Yaya stole power from a democratically elected government, had an opportunity to do good, but instead decided to render our people destitute because he does NOT have the wherewithal to move us forward. So, it is a well-known fact that under Yaya’s watch, when the country had unprecedented good rains and more groundnuts we have ever had, our people could NOT enjoy their sweat because they could NOT sell their groundnuts. Yaya and his cohorts have no plans to change this predicament for our people. Instead, what they would do is take Ousainou Darboe (the Alliance presidential candidate, in case Alliance detractors did NOT notice) out of the picture and focus on PPP. APRC and detractors like SM Dibba are still obsessing over PPP and blaming the country’s woes on Jawara. These are the pathetic excuses of people that have nothing to offer to Gambians. Need I tell them that it was Baabaa Jobe and NOT Jawara that expelled Alimenta out of the country and cost the Gambian taxpayer 12 million pounds sterling? In any case what Gambians are interested in during this election season is SOLUTIONS to our problems. Farmers want to know how the groundnuts would be sold at competitive rates. The Alliance has professional accountants, lawyers and economists that are spelling out to our farmers exactly how their plight is going to be alleviated vis-à-vis the marketing of groundnuts. But the Alliance also recognize that that is only part of the problem facing our people. People are not just facing problems trying to earn a living. While people’s incomes are going down, prices of basic commodities in the country are going up. Today a bag of rice in the country costs twice what it used to cost before Yaya usurped power from a democratically elected government. Price of fuel has gone up. Price of sugar, cooking oil, candles, you name it, have all gone up. Our people are living this. I have confidence that those people will repudiate the government that has reposed such misery on them. You move away from the miserable reality of our people and scrutinize what plans politicians have for the future of our country. Apart from the Alliance, all the other plans range from ‘no plans’ to ‘unworkable plans’. We have acute budget ‘in-balances’ in the country. APRC has no plans to solve this issue. All their government does is borrow money from Standard Chartered or Social Security through treasury bills. We have acute foreign exchange problems in the country. This problem leads to the astronomical prices in the country and the destitute state of our people. How does APRC solve this problem? ‘No plans’. So long as Yaya can just write a check and withdraw money from his Swiss Bank accounts, he does NOT care about the foreign currency problems of our entrepreneurs. Other Alliance detractors, they don’t talk about problem solving most of the time they speak. To them most problems can be tackled by just saying that it is Jawara’s fault. The Alliance is certainly winning the bread and butter issues, because it is giving SOLUTIONS to our people. Yaya and his cohorts have nothing to offer. Stealing the election on election day and using garbage publication as Observer to spread disinformation is the hope for APRC. But they will fail in both endeavors. Gambians will NOT allow APRC to use the IEC to steal the elections. As we speak/write, the Alliance is following the footsteps of the APRC in every constituency the latter visits in order to spread LIES. I saw the APRC Daily peddling garbage again about Alliance rallies. Instead of giving SOLUTIONS to our people, they are lying to Yaya again about Opposition support in the country. Well, Buba Baldeh and Yankuba Touray can fool Yaya, but they CANNOT fool the people. I am NOT in Gambia and they are NOT fooling me with their propaganda. Surely, they CANNOT fool the people on the ground. The APRC mental midgets at Observer want to make Yaya feel good by reporting that Alliance rallies are not attracting numbers. Nothing can be farther from the truth. When Buba Baldeh was talking about Kerewan what he ‘forgot’ to mention to Yaya was that Darboe had THREE UNSCHEDULED rallies at the INSISTENCE of Alliance supporters in Nuimi and Jokado before arriving late in Kerewan. Understandably, when Darboe and his team arrived in Kerewan, supporters had already (regrettably) dispersed. The truth is very different from what Buba Baldeh is telling Yaya. The Alliance is going to win in Kerewan if Yaya does NOT steal the election. Yaya was in Barra few days ago and people saw what he said there. The mental midget gave our people NO SOLUTIONS. Instead, he was busy making a fool of himself again. Moving to another APRC/Observer disinformation. Buba Baldeh is also NOT telling Yaya the truth again. But what do people expect from a sycophant like Buba Baldeh. The last thing he would do is say something that will upset Yaya. Although I am NOT familiar as to why the Alliance rally in Salikenni was cancelled, I am confident it has NOTHING to do with lack of support in Salikenni. What is more likely is that Alliance leaders want to avoid any conflict that might flare up between Alliance and NCP supporters that ALREADY decided that they were going to organize a rally first. The Alliance, cognizant of the fact that now APRC is blaming Alliance supporters for every thuggery in the country, I am confident thought it more prudent to wait until after Dibba’s rally in order to have their own rally. Surely, Buba Baldeh will NOT tell Yaya the truth. The vermin are in denial. In any case, I cannot understand why APRC is rejoicing over votes that are NOT coming to them. The people of Badibu will recognize that Darboe is more elect-able than Dibba and vote for Darboe. People will recognize that Dibba is only in this for selfish motives. The man does NOT want anybody to lead him. By the way, I wonder what happened to talks between NCP and NRP. What told me that that will NOT get anywhere so long as Dibba was NOT the leader? Badibu, like the rest of the country is going to give Darboe victory on October 18. Baldeh will NOT report the numerous rallies the APRC had to cancel because of lack of support. Let Baldeh tell us how many times Yaya cancelled rallies in Badibu and Sabach. Even Yankuba Touray that claims to be from Badibu CANNOT deliver that to the APRC. Yaya is finished. We all know that in both Bakau and Banjul APRC had converted their rallies to attaya sessions because of lack of support. SM Dibba’s first rally when he came back from his ‘vacation from politics’ was held in Bakau and it attracted less than 80 people. The Alliance rally in Bakau attracted more than sixty thousand supporters. These are the FACTS Buba Baldeh needs to report to his boss to avoid giving Yaya a heart attack when the results are announced. I hope the Alliance come out in full force against sycophants like Buba Baldeh and put the record straight. A great job is being done mapping out a bright future for our country. But the Alliance should also be mindful of the shenanigans of sycophants like Buba Baldeh. They should NOT be allowed to bamboozle the few gullible people in our midst that still have not smelled the coffee. The Alliance must maintain the momentum and shadow the vermin anywhere they go and NOT allow the APRC to take credit for PPP projects while at the same time blaming PPP even if Yaya steals from the people and open Swiss Bank accounts. No Devil made him do it. The vermin is simply despicable. We should force him to be accountable and not blame others for the misery he is visiting on our people. 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