Readers: The unedited e-mail below came from a reputable source at State House. Ebrima _________________________________________________________________ >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: "Many People do not Understand Me", says Yahya Jammeh >Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 > >Coach, > >Yahya Jammeh has sounded like someone who desperately needs good love from >the very people who have allegedly voted for him during the last >presidential elections. In his heart of hearts, Yahya knows that the >majority of Gambians never voted for him, anyway. Despite the tens of >thousands of people who were illegally registered, coerced and then >blackmailed into voting for him with the active collaboration of Gabriel >Roberts and the IEC, Yahya has failed to garner an impressive winning >margin against his opponents. Now knowing Yahya Jammeh as well as I do, he >will never forgive Gambians for providing him with ONLY 52% of the total >presidential votes despite massive rigging never seen before in Gambian >election history. His veil threats at "Kerr Cherno" village yesterday when >he declared that year 2003 is a year of "no mas-lah" and that those who do >not want peace and development is "another matter" is yet another clear >manifestation of the last kicks of a dying donkey. Yahya Jammeh and Jaliba >Yankuba Touray are fully aware of the rapidly-changing demographics of the >Gambian electoral landscape ushered in, unwittingly, by their bad economic >policies, courtesy of Famara Jatta, coupled with an ill-concieved and >half-baked foreign policy engineered by Blaise Jagne. Thanks to Famara >Jatta and Blaise Jagne, those illegal voters from the Cassamance are >returning in droves as a result of the combined effect of the 2003 budget >and foreign policy designed to antagonize the Senegalese. The 2006 >election, should we get to it, will not afford them the same opportunity of >dipping into the pool of foreigners, namely Senegalese, to register them to >vote in Gambian elections. The Senegalese government, on the other hand, >has let it be known that they will not do business with Jammeh and Blaise >Jagne who never hesitate to show their respective contempt for President >Wade and his government. The Senegalese government on the other hand >continues to prosecute those Senegalese voters caught with Gambian voters >card. For dictator Yahya Jammeh to say that Gambians do not understand him >is not only an under-statement but a contemptuous one at that. Gambians >know him too well and that happens to be the major problem facing him and >the APRC. Gambians see him as the "soldier with a difference" who mananged >in seven short years to turn The Gambia into the laughing stock of the >sub-region, if not in the entire African continent. It is not us, Yahya >Jammeh, who do not understand you; it's you Jammeh who continues to >under-estimate our intelligence and test our patience and resolve to the >limit. I believe Hamat Bah warned you about not taking too much for >granted. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~