Waa Juwara Expresses Dissatisfaction with Voter Turn-out
Monday 2nd October 2006
  By Baboucarr Senghore
  Lamin Waa Juwara, the Coordinator of the National Alliance for Democracy and Development (NADD), has said that voter turn-out in the just concluded presidential elections is unsatisfactory.
  In a view expressed over Radio Gambia’s weekly programme “Weekend News up beat” on Saturday, Mr Juwara said: “I do not agree with turn-out that we’ve been given in this elections, compared to previous elections.
  58% is the lowest ever turnout in the history of Gambian elections,” he said, adding that if at all these were the statistics given, it would be wise to compare the 2001 and 2006 figures as in most places, the turn-out has been so low that less than half of the registered voters turned out to vote.
  “The opposition should be very critical of themselves. We have very good potentials to win and there are clear lessons to learn: that no single party can go it alone in not only removing Jammeh but detaching the idea of incumbency,” he said, adding that there are still chances for a full grown alliance before the next presidential election.
  Commenting on the results, Mr Juwara conceded that “President Jammeh has won, he has won,” but argued that whether the president likes it or not, opposition will be here as it is a process that can never be stopped as far as a government exists. He noted that being on the side of the government or the opposition does not matter but that what matters is being Gambian.
  Commenting on the issue of the forthcoming National Assembly elections, the NADD Coordinator said that for the opposition to make any impact, there is the need for a tactical Alliance that should be very serious in analysing constituency by constituency to put up the right candidate in the right place. “We fail to make it in the elections because we could not maintain a united front”, he said.
  Mr Juwara further went on to describe these years-presidential elections as an improvement on the two previous elections. He also added that the failure to show any differentiation between state and party during the campaign period and the failure of the opposition to come together should be given a serious attention in elections to come.
 

 		
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