Subject: UDP Youth Wing Nationwide Tour Attracts Defections from the APRC
Saturday, 2 April 2011
UDP Youth Wing Nationwide Tour Attracts Defections from the APRC
The main opposition United Democratic Party [UDP] has witnessed yet another mass defection from the ruling APRC during a tour currently undertaken by its Youth Wing, in preparation for the forthcoming 2011 presidential election. The tour lead by Momodou Lamin Shyngle Nyassi, the party’s National Organising Secretary, took them to the Upper River Region, Central River Region and Lower River Region.
Speaking at well attended meeting at Mabalikunda in CRR, Tumani Fofana highlighted the lack of medical facility in the entire village and the high cost of living in the Country. He said the government has no credible plans to help Gambians in difficult times and as a result the entire country is feeling the pinch of this hardship. He also blamed voter inducement as responsible for the voter apathy in 2006 general elections.
Mr. Fofana finally called on the UDP leadership to be vigilant and advice people not to sell their votes for few hundreds and also to look into the issue of cross border registration.
UDP chairman in Malibalikunda, Mr. Lamin Ceesay, spoke at length about the campaign mounted by traditional chiefs to crown president Jammeh as king of the Gambia and call on the party to speak out and educate Gambians on this unconstitutional trend showing its head in the country.
Ms. Nyima Ceesay, UDP’s regional Co-coordinator for CRR, informed the meeting that the free education for girls that the APRC has been boosting as president Jammeh’s initiative is in fact being financed by UNICEF, not president Jammeh as portrayed by supporters of APRC.
Nyima Conteh of the Village Development Committee promised that they will vote massively for the UDP in the forthcoming elections noting they defected to the party due to promises broken by the APRC. She pointed out that there is acute water shortage in the village both for human and animal consumption.
In Sare Debo in URR the chairman of the APRC party announced his defection to the UDP at a well attended meeting and promised to bring along other villages in the area to the UDP. He applauded Mr. Amadou Sanneh, UDP’s National Treasurer, for helping them personally with developments in the village. Voters in Sare Kannimang also promised to vote overwhelmingly for the UDP as the APRC is all about endless broken promises.
In similar meetings in Gikiya,Tabanani and Fula Bantang, the villagers lamented about cross border registrations that has allowed many foreign nationals to have access to Gambian documents and vote in elections. Various speakers call on the party to help address this situation with the international community.
Meetings were also held in Jafaye, Sotokoi and Jarra Darsilame where Soliba Saidykhan, brother to the sitting National Assembly Member for Jarra East, declared his defection to the UDP.
The UDP Youth Wing Tour continues.
(Reporting by Lamin Darboe, editing by Alieu Ceesay)
Publisher; United Democratic Party
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