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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