Courtesy of Independent News Paper


Trouble was averted on Thursday during the nomination for the bye-elections
in Kerewan opposite the commissioner's compound when a handful of APRC
supporters attempted to disrupt the nomination of the UDP candidate.

The row started when the already nominated member for APRC and a group of
his supporters went to mobilise people from other villages in Lower and
Upper Baddibu to return to Kerewan to jubilate. Seeing them coming, the UDP
supporters who accompanied their candidate to be nominated urged the
security forces to order the APRC supporters to leave the town before
clashes occur.

The skirmish was only averted when the security forces managed to convince
the APRC supporters that they have done their nomination without any
interruption and that they should not interrupt the nomination of the UDP
candidate. Meanwhile at the IEC office in Kerewan things transpired
peacefully.

The APRC sponsored candidate Saikou Satu Saho submitted his nomination
papers with 343 signatures of valid voters by 8:30am while the UDP candidate
Lamin Dibba submitted his with 450 valid registered voters at 1pm. Saikou
Satu Saho was educated at Salikene Primary School and Crab Island Secondary
School and for the last six years he was a councilor at the Kerewan Area
Council.

Lamin Dibba was educated at Salikene Primary School, Gambia High School, and
later went to the United Kingdom for his masters degree in Community
Development. He was assistant director at the Department of Community
Development and project manager at the Christian Children's Fund (CCF). Both
Messrs Saho and Dibba hail from Salikene in Central Baddibu. After the
colourful nomination, which was characterized by singing and dancing,

Mr. Dibba told our reporter that he was going to make sure that Mr. Saho
lost his deposit. Another veteran politician Fafa Fatty also predicted that
Saikou Saho may lose his D5, 000 deposit. However, attempts by our reporter
to speak to Saikou Saho were unsuccessful since he left immediately after
the nomination.



Mori

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