Joe,
I beg to differ as per your views on the october 18th. elections which you
discribed as a referandum for the PPP. Five presidential candidates contested
and Jammeh came up with an absulute majority. What stopped the voters from
endorsing Dibba or Jatta or Bah if the UDP's rejection was as a result of
their association with the PPP?

Yes The Gambian voters may have two faces but not in a vacuum. You are right
when you talked about inducement.  That can come from neither NRP, NCP, UDP
led coalition nor PDOIS. All other unconventional methods used during the
election was by the APRC.--- inducement, intimidation, harrasement,
registration of forign nationals, tribalism, killings, arrests and detention
etc. With all these in place how can you call it a referandum for PPP and
APRC?

Concerning the tactical alliance you proposed, parhaps you need to go a
little bit into details. Long before the lifting of the ban on the former
politicians there was a lot of debate on this topic and everybody including
all opposition parties agreed in principle as to the need to come together
and fight the APRC regime. What was missing was the details of how to go
about it. Please favour me with your views on that.

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