Folks, I told you we are going to see and hear more bizarre things from Yaya
and the APFRC.  The 2006 elections is going to be won now and I appeal to
all and sundry to stop procrastinating and join the movement for change in
the Gambia.  Yaya is paranoid because he is afraid of us getting organized
and we cannot afford to sit and just ignore him.  While he engages in
mudslinging, we need to continue to expose him, just like Halifa Sallah did
and I hope Waa, OJ, Ousainou, Hamat, and Sidia to further expose him.
Folks, we cannot say we want change, yet we are more concerned with
semantics and irrelevant issues.  The real fight has just begun.  Please
read on.



Politics Gets Dirty as Jammeh Pours Vitriol On the Opposition

The Independent (Banjul)

July 28, 2003
Posted to the web July 28, 2003

S.b Camara
Banjul

President Jammeh has poured scorn on the idea of an opposition coalition to
unseat him in the 2006 elections branding a whole colony of opposition
elements in The Gambia as "dangerous combinations, parasites, devils,
reptiles and notorious drunks, which will never be allowed to lead this
country".

The Gambian leader told a youth rally in Tallinding Buffer Zone Thursday as
part of activities in remembrance of his military takeover nine years ago,
that the opposition were unfit to replace him in view of their shady and
questionable integrity and intentions for the country. He also reminded them
that "whether they like it or not I am the president of both good and bad
Gambians". Making reference to his trip to the United States the president
said the opposition were always glad to live under the notion that his
administration was in bad blood with the Americans.

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He said his political opponents were happy that his relationship with
certain Western states like the U.S and Britain was sour after they refused
to recognise his government at the time.

"But that was yesterday, and today they (the opposition) are ashamed" he
said. He also said that he was amazed by newspaper reports of an opposition
coalition bid for a regime change or system change in The Gambia.

He noted that the political parties involved couldn't differentiate between
a regime change and a system change. "In a bid to fool the masses, they want
to intellectualise it. Advocates of such a system change are backward people
as evidence in the hairstyle of one of them, which is like Jackson five of
the 1960s. I am sure that even his electorates have regretted voting him
into parliament" he charged.

President Jammeh went further to re-define the initials of opposition
political parties as Parasitic, Deceptive Organisms, Identified as
Socialists for PDOIS, Universal Devils Platform as the UDP, Notorious
Reptiles and Pythons as the NRP and NDAM as Notorious Drunkards and Maggots.

He accused the UDP of "never intending good things for this country but only
evil things. He also described NRP's Honourable Bah as a snake who has his
own interest in the political platform. He said NDAM are Notorious Drunkards
and Maggots because they survive on dirty things.

"For the PPP they are Pah-ye Palpal Partu as they are aimless old daddies"
he said.

He singled out some opposition figures for some personal attacks, beginning
with Halifa Sallah whom described as a "so-called sociologist who has not
bagged any degree in his field of study". He challenged Honourable Sallah to
publish his credentials in newspapers if his claims were to be proved wrong.

"In terms of religion, he never uses the name of Allah in his deliberations.
Will you Gambians allow such a person who doesn't speak about God to lead
you" he asked, making pointed reference to Honourable Sallah and the Foroyya
newspaper.

If PDOIS are socialists, they should have worked for such things that will
benefit our society," he charged.

Turning to Honourable Bah, Jammeh quoted the NRP leader as saying shortly
after the APRC's election victory in 2001 that "it is high time the
Americans and the British recognised Jammeh because he has been elected". He
said if Honourable Bah were a noble he would have done something good to
take this country forward.

"But after that Hamat Bah went on to sat that The Gambia is not democratic.
If there is no democracy here today compared to Jawara's era then democracy
exists nowhere in the world, because even an entertainment manager from the
Kombo Beach Hotel is now an opposition leader" he charged.

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