Join APRC or quit politics FJC tells Darboe

Hon Fatoumatta Jahumpa Ceesay, APRC nominated National Assembly member has
again taken Ousainou Darboe, the leader of the opposition United Democratic
Party (UDP) to task following his allegations that the presidential election
was marred by fraud and rampant voter registration.

Honourable Jahumpa Ceesay described Darboe as “a confused person as he was
the very one who conceded defeat on the October 18 Presidential election
before the official results were announced by the Independent Electoral
Commission chairman, Gabriel J Roberts. Darboe is looking for sympathy from
the international community because of the recently ended election in
Zimbabwe which has now made him to cause noise again.” She reiterated that
the Presidential election was witnessed by international observers who
proclaimed it as free and fair.

Mrs Jahumpa Ceesay alleged that President Jammeh’s fine democratic
principles made Darboe to contest the presidential election because he had
violated the constitution by evading income tax of nearly half a million
dalasis and was in court on murder charges. She added that the UDP was
formed by people who had axes to grind with the Jammeh regime.

Therefore if Darboe had consulted those in his party who are matured
politically, he would not have said some of the things he is saying. The UDP
is crying that they don’t have access to the national media and yet in 1995,
they criticised Jammeh’s television that it was a white elephant project,”
she charged. Hon Jahumpa Ceesay disclosed that Darboe should provide
evidence that 50,000 non-Gambians were registered in Senegal and that some
UDP supporters were sacked from the civil service after the Presidential
election. Taking issues with Darboe on the appointment of personnel of the
Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) by the political parties, she said it
was not democratic for IEC personnel to be selected by political parties in
any country. She challenged Darboe for having the misconception that
Gambians abroad don’t support the APRC.

The APRC has branches in the United States and in the United Kingdom formed
by Gambians themselves without us going there to mobilise them like he did.
If the rule of law was to be adhered to after the election, there should
have been no rally. The UDP was holding rallies just to intimidate the
security so that they would be harassed in order to alarm the international
community.”

Honourable Ceesay advised Darboe to quit politics and join Jammeh in good
company and for the development of the Gambian people. Mrs Jahumpa Ceesay
said that the rapid progress, stability and development of President Jammeh
and the APRC Government would make him go unopposed even in 2006.



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