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Breaking News:President Jammeh Embarks On Unscheduled Meeting in Serre-Kunda-As UDP Leader Leaves Brikama For Serre-Kunda This Evening!
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Breaking News:President Jammeh Embarks On Unscheduled Meeting in Serre-Kunda-As UDP Leader Leaves Brikama For Serre-Kunda This Evening!
Breaking
News:President Jammeh Embarks On Unscheduled Meeting in Serre-Kunda-As
UDP Leader Leaves Brikama For Serre-Kunda This Evening!
Opposition Leaders Trying To Avoid A Clash Between The APRC And Their Supporters!!
 UDP Leader To Hold A Mass Rally In Sedaclub Tonight....
By Our Roving Reporter
Incumbent
President Yahya Jammeh is making last minutes rush to hold an
unscheduled meeting in Serre-kunda near the primary school signaling
that his supporters might likely clash with the UDP convoy which left
Brikama this afternoon for Serre-kunda, where flag bearer lawyer
Ousaniou Numukunda Darboe and his jubilant party supporters and
officials were scheduled to hold a mass rally at Sedaclub. Well placed
sources hinted that Jammeh's unscheduled Serre-Kunda meeting might lead to
possible violence as his cheering supporters had earned themselves with
the reputation of being trouble makers during last days before polling.
It was exactly around this time around in 1996 when a UDP convoy were
intercepted at the Denton Bridge by armed guards led by Agriculture
Minister Yankuba Touray and Baba Jobe, where they mercilessly tortured
opposition supporters and their officials. The barbaric and the inhumane
treatment of the opposition supporters led to the death of former UDP
drummer Kaibutay Jahfuna and Sedia Sanyang a former executive member of
the UDP. Again, in the last days of the 2002 Presidential elections
campaign, a team of state guard soldiers led by SGT.Kawsu Camara now
lieutenant disrupted the UDP Talinding meeting, where they shot and
killed an opposition supporter. An early morning source told the
Freedom Newspaper that the Gambian leader is posed to provoke another
electoral violence with his scheduled Serre-Kunda meeting.
Is Jammeh looking for trouble again???
The
Independent Electoral Commission which is in charge of election matters
have not issued any statement regarding Jammeh's unscheduled
Serre-Kunda meeting. An official of the IEC told this reporter that the
APRC were in the habit of violating the campaign code of conduct with
their unscheduled meetings. The IEC official says their offices never
received any formal request from the APRC in relation to their
Serre-Kunda meeting and their presence in the locality at this hour was a
total breach of the election code of conduct. It is not clear what
President Jammeh was up to at this hour with his last minute
unscheduled meetings.
The Freedom Newspaper gathered that the
UDP led alliance were doing everything in their means to avert a
possible crisis this evening, as they tried to avoid having a clash
with APRC supporters. If all plans went through, said a source close to
the UDP/NRP/GPDP convoy, their party leader was due to arrive in
Serre-Kunda in two hours time. The UDP leader is expected to address
thousands of jubilant supporters at Sedaclub. Throughout, the campaign
period Darboe supporters have been chanting slogans of regime change in
the West African country. Our reporter covering the UDP tour says
opposition leader Ousainou Darboe has never been followed by such a
type of crowd since coming into politics. He says if the Brikama
meeting was anything to go by, then Jammeh was bound to face a tougher
challenge come election day. Our reporter says Jammeh did not pulled
half of the crowd that escorted lawyer Darboe as people walked from
Brikama to Serre-kunda escorting the UDP convoy. Political commentators
say Jammeh is likely to receive a rude shock in the coming elections as
there was growing demand for regime change in the former British
colony.
Elections campaign will ceased on Thursday, which
would be declared a cooling period by the IEC. The verdict of the
Gambian people will then follow as voting was scheduled for Friday. The head of the Commonwealth observer team Dr.Salim was said to be on a filed tour assessing the political climate.
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Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 (Archive on Sunday, October 29, 2006)
Posted by PNMBAI Contributed by PNMBAI
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