Courtesy of Independent News Paper Trouble was averted on Thursday during the nomination for the bye-elections in Kerewan opposite the commissioner's compound when a handful of APRC supporters attempted to disrupt the nomination of the UDP candidate. The row started when the already nominated member for APRC and a group of his supporters went to mobilise people from other villages in Lower and Upper Baddibu to return to Kerewan to jubilate. Seeing them coming, the UDP supporters who accompanied their candidate to be nominated urged the security forces to order the APRC supporters to leave the town before clashes occur. The skirmish was only averted when the security forces managed to convince the APRC supporters that they have done their nomination without any interruption and that they should not interrupt the nomination of the UDP candidate. Meanwhile at the IEC office in Kerewan things transpired peacefully. The APRC sponsored candidate Saikou Satu Saho submitted his nomination papers with 343 signatures of valid voters by 8:30am while the UDP candidate Lamin Dibba submitted his with 450 valid registered voters at 1pm. Saikou Satu Saho was educated at Salikene Primary School and Crab Island Secondary School and for the last six years he was a councilor at the Kerewan Area Council. Lamin Dibba was educated at Salikene Primary School, Gambia High School, and later went to the United Kingdom for his masters degree in Community Development. He was assistant director at the Department of Community Development and project manager at the Christian Children's Fund (CCF). Both Messrs Saho and Dibba hail from Salikene in Central Baddibu. After the colourful nomination, which was characterized by singing and dancing, Mr. Dibba told our reporter that he was going to make sure that Mr. Saho lost his deposit. Another veteran politician Fafa Fatty also predicted that Saikou Saho may lose his D5, 000 deposit. However, attempts by our reporter to speak to Saikou Saho were unsuccessful since he left immediately after the nomination. Mori ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------