Mballow,
  This is the worst insult that can be levied against the Gambian voters. The excuse given by this Press Relaese is very inmaterial, passive and weak. There is no smoking gun and it is just another of Ousianou's crying wolf. I was thinking that once again, he was going to call for his party not to contest the Parliamentary elections. 
  The best eviidence Darboe and his party couild have given as an excuse for this poor results is his inability to work together with the other parties to be one. It does not take any so-call politician or even a social scientist to see that the failure of the alliance have mad the opposition supporters to stay home. There has been a lot of accusations of vote buying but none has been mentioned by Darboe. That means that there probably was none.
   
  Alieu.

United Democratic Party NYC <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  PRESS STATEMENT



Ladies and gentlemen of the local and international press, we have gone through a Presidential election on Friday 22nd September, 2006 and now that we have received the declaration of results by the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), we in the UDP/NRP/GPDP Alliance wish to state that:

We totally reject the results declared by Jammeh’s IEC whose Chairman had declared during his swearing in before the President that eighty to ninety percent of the country are behind Jammeh.

Similarly, Jammeh himself had declared the outcome of the elcections when he stated that neither the ballot nor a coup d’etat could remove him from office. The declared results are therefore his results and those of the security services who throughout the campaign period and after, were seen displaying the ruling APRC party colours and symbols on their vehicles, offices and on their persons.

We categoricallly state that the declared result does not reflect the massive support that the UDP/NRP/GPDP Alliance have in this country and which was expressed up to the end of the campaign on 20th September, 2006.

We strongly believe that the use of force characterised by intimidation and harassement as well as inducement by agents of the Executive at the local level greatly influenced the peculiar voting pattern reflected during the elections.

We therefore, totally reject the results and we call on all our supporters to remain calm and vigilant and not to succumb to provocation and harassment.


UDP/NRP/GPDP Alliance
Banjul.
24th September,2006-09-24 


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