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UDP Petitions Gambia’s Electoral Commission
Tuesday, 22 November 2011 15:36
Darboe & Fatty
In a petition to the chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Alh. Mustapha Carayol, the UDP said:
We have noted with dismay that since the beginning of political party rallies, the GRTS has been showing our caravan meetings of our party done before the formal start of the official campaign programme i.e. Our meetings in Kafuta, Faraba, Pirang, Sukuta and Gunjur.
Lawyer Mai Fatty and Lawyer Darboe on the campaign trail
We are now on the eighth day of the campaign and GRTS has still not shown a single UDP programme of the current campaign. To the contrary, these meetings have been repeated ad nauseam.
There is absolutely no excuse not to show our meetings and this action is tantamount to a deliberate attempt to stifle the activities of the UDP. It is for this reason that we bring this action of the GRTS to your attention and we expect that as the arbiter of these elections you will make the GRTS adopt equity and even handedness as required of them by law.
We count on your immediate action to remedy this undesirable situation which is the subject of conversation in the country and overseas.
Meanwhile, the UDP has also expressed concern to the IEC about the misuse of state institution by the ruling APRC.
In a letter to the electoral commission, the UDP said:
We have noted along the Kombo Coastal road, Sanyang area in particular some army trucks carrying passengers wearing APRC tee shirts. In situations like this the military must be seen to be neutral since they are the national army of everybody.
We bring this to your attention with the hope that you could resolve these issues.
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Comments
No passports for those refusing to vote
"I will tell IEC to print pictures of all those who registered and fail to vote, we will deal with them. If you register and fail to vote even a passport will not be issued to you in the coming five years.”
Yes folks this is the penis that you want running the country for another 5 years. Not a chance folks!!! Enough is enough!!!
These are the main causes of divided opposition and dis-unity; mainly from UDP militancy on 2% poll, "pygmies", "satanic", "tribalism" etc?
If you want us to focus on common goal for ALL OPPONENTS; best militancy/campaign strategy is about national cause, national unity, partnership & solidarity; rather than discriminating other citizens; held nation to ransom on partisan agenda and demanding other opposition parties to be absorbed into UDP?
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