Baba Jobe, the former APRC candidate for Jarra West, has urged the people of
the district not to look up to him as their candidate in the next
legislative elections if they failed to vote for President Yahya Jammeh in
the October presidential polls. The assistant secretary at the Office of the
President was speaking at a mass rally at Kani-Kunda Jarra West, last
Sunday. He said it was high time that the people of Jarra reconsidered their
allegiance to the main opposition UDP and advised them to rally behind the
APRC party because it was out to improve their living standards.

Mr Jobe said it was meaningless for the Jarrankas to remain opposed to the
government when UDP supporters and stalwarts in the capacity of National
Assembly members are quitting to the APRC. He alleged that the minority
leader Kemeseng Jammeh could only do little to bring development and
progress to their door steps, adding that the leadership of the APRC
believed in peace, unity and development and had no evil intention for The
Gambia. The National Assembly member for Jarra Central, Foday Lang Sarr,
told the Jarra West constituents to vote Baba Jobe in and to forego voting
along tribal lines.

Hon Sarr explained that the milling machines distributed by Kemeseng Jammeh
among villages in Jarra West were not provided by him, but were gifts from
the Canadian Fund. During the meetings, one Nyima Saidykhan, said to be a
strong supporter of the UDP, cross-carpeted to the APRC . Fatou Njie, wife
of the Jarra West chief ,Yaya Jarjusey, said the youth in Jarra West were in
support of Baba Jobe. Other speakers included Saikou Drammeh, Bakotonding
Saidykhan, Yassin Dibba and Momodou Sohna Saidykhan. The meeting was chaired
by Bakary Dampha.





Mori

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