By Shout-Africa.com Gambia Correspondent – Communities in the North Bank Region have assured the leader of the main opposition United Democratic Party, Ousainou Darboe, of a landslide victory in the forthcoming presidential polls due next week Thursday. The assurance was made to the UDP leadership Wednesday during political rallies held in the villages of Essau, Fass Njaga Choi, Ndungu Kebbeh, Baddibu Katchang and Baddidu Salikene as part of the UDP party’s campaign for the coming polls. At the Baddibu Katchang meeting, where UDP supporters chanted, “It’s time for a change,” speaker after speaker assured Darboe of victory, stressing that “victory... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, November 20th 2011 |
By Shout-Africa.com Gambia Correspondent – After over four years abroad, the leader of the opposition Gambia Moral Congress, GMC, returned to The Gambia Tuesday evening. This was confirmed by our reporter who is currently touring the country with the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) as part of the party’s presidential campaign. Mai Ahmad Fatty, whose GMC formed an alliance with the UDP in the run-up to the forthcoming presidential election, was received by a jubilant crowd of both UDP, GMC and PPP party supporters in Farafenni, from where he crossed over into the country from neighbouring Senegal. “Well, I am... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, November 20th 2011 |
By Sainey M.K. Marenah, Shout-Africa.com Chief Correspondent in Gambia – The leadership of the main opposition United Democratic Party, UDP, has vowed to regain what it said was the country’s “lost glory under the 17 year rule of the APRC party,” if given the mandate to run the affairs of this country, come 24th November. Speaker upon speaker at meetings held in Bakoteh, Kerr Sering, Sanchaba Sulay Jobe and Sukuta on Sunday as part of its presidential campaign, assured Gambians that a UDP government will improve the social services in the country, which they said have seen a massive decline... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, November 16th 2011 |
By Sainey M.K. Marenah, Shout-Africa.com Chief Correspondent in Gambia – Incumbent President Yahya Jammeh began his campaign for re-election for a fourth term in office Sunday afternoon with an admonition to the people of the North Bank Region not to stop any of his rival opposition presidential aspirants and their supporters from holding rallies in their villages. “You have no right to stop the opposition from holding their meetings here. If you are not supporting them, do not go to their meeting place and if they want to hold their meetings, let them do it, but don’t stop them please”... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, November 16th 2011 |
By Sainey M.K. Marenah, Shout-Africa.com Chief Correspondent in Gambia – Campaigning for the forthcoming presidential election slated for 24th November officially got to a start Saturday with politicians holding meetings after meetings in different parts of the country. The election, the fourth since the advent of the Second Republic, will see incumbent President Yahya Jammeh seeking a fourth term against Lawyer Ousainou Darboe of the United Democratic Party (UDP) and Hamat Bah, an independent candidate under the newly-formed United Front comprising four opposition parties. Jammeh, 46, has said that this year’s election will be a contest between progress and retrogression,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, November 16th 2011 |
