Seedy, don't  blamed this tragedy on poverty. The people of Kiang can certainly make their minds without soliciting money from any political party. Apparantly, UDP might suffer from the same mistake in the last presidential election. The mistake is high optimism. If you don't know, Kiang has the highest rural-urban migration in The Gambia. Most Kiankas live in Brikama and the rest of the Komboes and probably don't bother to go and vote for UDP because they think they were going to win. Hence the low turnout and humuliating defeat.  Anyway, we will keep monitoring and give more analysis later.