NEWS HAMAT BAH ACCUSES IEC OF MASSIVE VOTE TRANFER By Lamin Sabally -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 11, 2005 Hamat Bah, one of the top officials of the Opposition Alliance has accused the nation's electoral body of illegally transferring over two thousands votes to his constituency. In a recent interview broadcast on BBC focus on Africa conducted by their Dakar Correspondent, Gambia's owned Ebrima Sillah, Mr. Bah described the recent move as illegitimate, saying most of those voters who have their votes transferred have not met the residency qualifications stipulated by the Elections degree. Asked why his Upper Saloum constituency was singled out for the alleged transfer, Mr. Bah recalled that the President has vowed to unseat him come the 29 September by elections by all means. "So, this is a by election between me and the president", he contended adding that the recent move by the IEC is a justification of DR. Jammeh's pronouncement. Bah then questioned the credibility of the IEC in the face of such a serious allegation. He decried the appointment of a former Secretary of State Mboob to the Commission wondering the impartiality of such a person who he said was going around campaigning for the President and APRC during his tenure as a cabinet Minister. In what appeared to be a fierce less warning, Bah revealed that this time NADD will not sit idly by to have Jammeh to get away with what he described as" a fraudulent election. Hamat's interview came at a time when the nation is currently bracing up for what many political pundits refers to as crucial by-election that will be a litmus test for the new opposition Alliance born out of the concerted crusade to end the tyrannical rule of the APRC government under the stewardship of world's youngest President. Go To Top -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 2004 AllGambian.Net. All Rights Reserved. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.com/ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤