Saturday, 2 April 2011 UDP Youth Wing Nationwide Tour Attracts Defections
from the APRC

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main opposition United Democratic Party [UDP] has witnessed yet another mass
defection from the ruling APRC during a tour currently undertaken by its
Youth Wing, in preparation for the forthcoming 2011 presidential election.
The tour lead by Momodou Lamin Shyngle Nyassi, the party’s National
Organising Secretary, took them to the Upper River Region, Central River
Region and Lower River Region.



Speaking at well attended meeting at Mabalikunda in CRR, Tumani Fofana
highlighted the lack of medical facility in the entire village and the high
cost of living in the Country. He said the government has no credible plans
to help Gambians in difficult times and as a result the entire country is
feeling the pinch of this hardship. He also blamed voter inducement as
responsible for the voter apathy in 2006 general elections.



 Mr. Fofana finally called on the UDP leadership to be vigilant and advice
people not to sell their votes for few hundreds and also to look into the
issue of cross border registration.



UDP chairman in Malibalikunda, Mr. Lamin Ceesay, spoke at length about the
campaign mounted by traditional chiefs to crown president Jammeh as king of
the Gambia and call on the party to speak out and educate Gambians on this
unconstitutional trend showing its head in the country.



Ms. Nyima Ceesay, UDP’s regional Co-coordinator for CRR, informed the
meeting that the free education for girls that the APRC has been boosting as
president Jammeh’s initiative is in fact being financed by UNICEF, not
president Jammeh as portrayed by supporters of APRC.



Nyima Conteh of the Village Development Committee promised that they will
vote massively for the UDP in the forthcoming elections noting they defected
to the party due to promises broken by the APRC. She pointed out that there
is acute water shortage in the village both for human and animal
consumption.

In Sare Debo in URR the chairman of the APRC party announced his defection
to the UDP at a well attended meeting and promised to bring along other
villages in the area to the UDP. He applauded Mr. Amadou Sanneh, UDP’s
National Treasurer, for helping them personally with developments in the
village. Voters in Sare Kannimang also promised to vote overwhelmingly for
the UDP as the APRC is all about endless broken promises.


In similar meetings in Gikiya,Tabanani and Fula Bantang, the villagers
lamented about cross border registrations that has allowed many foreign
nationals to have access to Gambian documents and vote in elections. Various
speakers call on the party to help address this situation with the
international community.


Meetings were also held in Jafaye, Sotokoi and Jarra Darsilame where Soliba
Saidykhan, brother to the sitting National Assembly Member for Jarra East,
declared his defection to the UDP.



The UDP Youth Wing Tour continues.



(Reporting by Lamin Darboe, editing by Alieu Ceesay)



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