Join APRC or quit politics FJC tells Darboe Hon Fatoumatta Jahumpa Ceesay, APRC nominated National Assembly member has again taken Ousainou Darboe, the leader of the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) to task following his allegations that the presidential election was marred by fraud and rampant voter registration. Honourable Jahumpa Ceesay described Darboe as “a confused person as he was the very one who conceded defeat on the October 18 Presidential election before the official results were announced by the Independent Electoral Commission chairman, Gabriel J Roberts. Darboe is looking for sympathy from the international community because of the recently ended election in Zimbabwe which has now made him to cause noise again.” She reiterated that the Presidential election was witnessed by international observers who proclaimed it as free and fair. Mrs Jahumpa Ceesay alleged that President Jammeh’s fine democratic principles made Darboe to contest the presidential election because he had violated the constitution by evading income tax of nearly half a million dalasis and was in court on murder charges. She added that the UDP was formed by people who had axes to grind with the Jammeh regime. Therefore if Darboe had consulted those in his party who are matured politically, he would not have said some of the things he is saying. The UDP is crying that they don’t have access to the national media and yet in 1995, they criticised Jammeh’s television that it was a white elephant project,” she charged. Hon Jahumpa Ceesay disclosed that Darboe should provide evidence that 50,000 non-Gambians were registered in Senegal and that some UDP supporters were sacked from the civil service after the Presidential election. Taking issues with Darboe on the appointment of personnel of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) by the political parties, she said it was not democratic for IEC personnel to be selected by political parties in any country. She challenged Darboe for having the misconception that Gambians abroad don’t support the APRC. The APRC has branches in the United States and in the United Kingdom formed by Gambians themselves without us going there to mobilise them like he did. If the rule of law was to be adhered to after the election, there should have been no rally. The UDP was holding rallies just to intimidate the security so that they would be harassed in order to alarm the international community.” Honourable Ceesay advised Darboe to quit politics and join Jammeh in good company and for the development of the Gambian people. Mrs Jahumpa Ceesay said that the rapid progress, stability and development of President Jammeh and the APRC Government would make him go unopposed even in 2006. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~