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Posted - 21 Oct 2020 : 11:59:44
https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/headlines/cellou-dalein-diallo-wins-landslide-in-gambia
SNIPPET:
"t remains to be seen the reaction of Guineans when the Guinea electoral body CENI announces the final and official results."
Oct 20, 2020, 10:49 AM | Article By: Sankulleh Gibril Janko
The party leader of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UDFG), Cellou Dalein Diallo, has won a landslide victory among Guinean voters in The Gambia as they cast their votes in the 18 October presidential elections.
The economist politician Diallo battered his main opponent and incumbent Alpha Conde, beating him by more than 10,000 votes.
Out of the 11,800 valid votes cast on Sunday, Cellou Dalein Diallo got 11,188 votes while his closest rival and incumbent President Alpha Conde only managed to gather 201 votes to come in second.
Cellou’s landslide victory was projected by many looking at his support base in The Gambia.
Provisional results in Guinea are similar to the Gambia’s result as the former Prime Minister led in major towns in the country.
This is despite President Conde exempting over 2 million Guinean votes residing in Senegal and many more Guinean voters in Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique.
Fatimah Bah, a Cellou Dalein supporter, said it is now time for her candidate, saying it is obvious that Guineans want him as their new president.
Mamadou Salieu Jallow said: “I pray that things continue like this, expressing his fear for a second round as he recalled the 2010 presidential elections.”
“In the first election that was 10 years back, I assumed 2010, he (Cellou) got 48% and Alpha Conde got 22% and they went on a run off, and interestingly Alpha Conde was declared president and that despite the person who came out third with 18% joined up with Cellou.”
ECOWAS observer mission described the electoral process as peaceful despite a tense period ahead of the election.
It remains to be seen the reaction of Guineans when the Guinea electoral body CENI announces the final and official results.
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| toubab1020 |
Posted - 23 Oct 2020 : 14:54:22
https://foroyaa.net/lesson-from-guinea-conakry/
EDITORIAL.
October 22, 2020
Colonialism brought ethnolinguistic groups under colonial rule as subjects of a foreign power. They built schools and created an elite that could speak the same language and provide public services based on the education delivered by the colonial powers.
The vast majority of the rural areas were deprived of such education. Hence, they were excluded from being the policy makers and relied on the elite to make laws and policies for them.
Poverty and powerlessness under colonialism compelled the educated to unite with the alienated mass to demand for the right to self determination and Independence.
This has been achieved. Instead of building new mindsets to build one nation and one people, they concentrate on power play to use the masses as puns in their game of power. Hence, they continue to fight and die for them while they find shelter to stay in power or wait to assume power.
When will the masses learn to unite as one to focus on the eradication of their poverty instead of closing their eyes to their poverty and struggle on the basis of ethno- linguistic or religious allegiances to keep or put elites in power? Time will tell.
However, Guinea Conakry should provide valuable lessons. A person who was considered oppressed had the opportunity to lead for two terms and could have set the stage for free and fair elections and be an elderly statesman who could carry out sub-regional services but instead chose to seek a third term. The end result would be contested results leading to more killing and maiming of the sons and daughters of the motherland. Is this what Independence should mean to the African?
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| toubab1020 |
Posted - 22 Oct 2020 : 10:36:29
https://standard.gm/guinea-diallo-declares-victory-election-body-rejects-claim0/
October 20, 2020
Cellou Dalein Diallo said he has won the first round of a high-stakes presidential election, prompting the country’s election body, which has yet to publish results, to call his self-declared victory “void”.
“Despite the serious anomalies that marred the smooth running of the … election and in view of the results that came out of the ballot boxes, I am victorious in this election in the first round,” Diallo told journalists and cheering supporters on Monday, a day after the vote was held.
“I invite all my fellow citizens who love peace and justice to stay vigilant and committed to defend this democratic victory.”
Outside the building in the capital, Conakry, supporters erupted in joy and chanted “Cellou, president”. Elsewhere in the city, security forces fired tear gas canisters at crowds assembling in support of Diallo.
The opposition leader did not give any figures but said the tally was based on his party’s count, not an official tally being conducted by the national election commission.
Later on Monday, Bakary Mansare, the vice president of the electoral authority, told the AFP news agency Diallo’s purported victory was “premature” and “void”.
Diallo, 68, is the main challenger to Guinea’s 82-year-old incumbent President Alpha Conde, who is seeking a third term in office after a constitutional change in March.
Diallo’s announcement sets the stage for a showdown with the government, which insists Sunday’s vote was fair and the official electoral authority must declare the results.
Polling day was mostly calm, but it followed months of protests against a third term for Conde which were met with a harsh response by security forces. Dozens of people were killed during the mass demonstrations against Conde’s re-election bid.
Opposition members are deeply suspicious of the fairness of the poll, as well as the independence of Guinea’s electoral authority.
Signs of a looming electoral dispute began to appear on Sunday when Diallo told reporters Conde could “cheat” his way to power.
Guinea’s security minister fired back that Diallo should “return to his senses”.
“If we are the winners, we will defend our victory,” he said. “We won’t wait.”
Earlier on Monday, Guinea’s government said in a statement the opposition “clearly intended to create chaos and to call into question the real results that will come out of the ballot box”.
After decades as an opposition activist, Conde became Guinea’s first democratically elected president in 2010 and won again in 2015, but rights groups now accuse him of veering towards authoritarianism.
Diallo was formerly a prime minister under authoritarian leader Lansana Conte. He unsuccessfully challenged Conde in both 2010 and 2015, in elections his party activists are convinced were rigged.
Before vote counting began on Sunday, Diallo’s activists said their observers had been obstructed at polling stations and alleged ballot-box stuffing.
Prime Minister Kassory Fofana said the opposition publishing results ahead of the official results was tantamount to pouring “oil on the fire”.
He added these results are expected within a week.
There have been fears recent tensions have taken on an ethnic dimension, with Conde accused of exploiting divisions during the campaign – a charge he denies. Guinea’s politics are mainly drawn along ethnic lines: The president’s base is mostly from the ethnic Malinke community and Diallo’s from the Fulani people.
Before the vote, the United Nations urged candidates to curb ethnically charged hate speech, warning the situation is “extremely dangerous” and may lead to violence.
Speaking to Al Jazeera from Conakry on Sunday, Patrice Vahard, spokesman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, cited inclusiveness, hate speech and electoral violence as the main concerns in the lead-up to the vote.
“The period from the moment the polling stations close to the announcement of the final result by the constitutional court is going to be extremely critical,” he warned. |
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