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kobo
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 Posted - 27 Oct 2011 : 14:52:44
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THE POINT NEWS Ahead of November polls NRP, PDOIS, GPDP in talks
"Thursday, October 27, 2011
With just less than a month to the forthcoming presidential election slated for 24th November, leaders of three opposition parties are engaged in talks of a possible alliance to challenge incumbent President Yahya Jammeh.
The parties in the talks are the Peoples Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), the National Reconciliation Party (NRP), and the Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress (GPDP).
The talks, according to Hamat Bah, leader of the NRP, are at their tail end and that, by today, Gambians will be informed of the outcome of their meetings.
The move comes after leaders from seven opposition political parties failed to agree after weeks of discussion on the possibility of forming a united front. While others agreed to the proposal to hold a convention where people will choose a single candidate, others are of a view that a UDP-led alliance will do well.
Hamat Bah, who was speaking in an interview with this paper yesterday, said leaders from the PDOIS, NRP and GPDP have held discussions on the possibility of going through a convention.
“We are discussing the possibility of having an alliance through the convention proposal that was presented by the PDOIS. We have almost finalised. We are at the tail end of our discussion,” he said, adding that what they need are the voters.
“We are definitely sure that we can succeed, because the number of people, especially the youths and some very responsible people that have contacted us and expressed their support for the convention is overwhelming,” he said in response to whether they stand any chance with just less than a month to go.
According to the NRP leader, they will let Gambians know when the convention is going to take place, and how it is going to happen, latest by Thursday (today).
While expressing confidence that there will be an agreement, after the talks, Bah who lost on two occasions to President Jammeh said with the NRP, PDOIS and GPDP alliance, change can be effected come 24th November.
“We can effect a positive change in this country,” he declared.
The NRP leader dispel suggestions that he has been bribed in order not to join any alliance, saying that those making such comments are those disgruntled people who have failed to put them on board their bandwagon.
“They will always lie. They even said that we were given money. Tell me what will I do with D3 million, which is not even enough for my two days fish money? That is a joke, because if Hamat Bah is taking money, it will be a lot of money,” he emphasised.
These, he said, are the type of misinformation people will spread in order to get him, but they will never succeed because, as he put it, “we are committed and determined in what we believe in.”
Author: Baboucarr Senghore"
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kobo
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Posted - 28 Oct 2011 : 12:52:58
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FOROYAA EDITORIAL: - IS THE UNDBELIEVABLE HAPPENING? SIGNING CEREMONY OF MOU OF UNITED FRONT OF OPPOSITION PARTIES
"Foroyaa has received an invitation to send a reporter to cover the signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding establishing a United Front of opposition parties to be held at the Atlantic Hotel in Banjul on Saturday 29th October 2011.
This letter therefore confirms that those parties which support a convention have finally reached an agreement.
What the Memorandum of Understanding contains will be known by our readers next Monday. Foroyaa will serialize it for the benefit of our readers.
The 2011 election is beginning to come with its surprises. First the opposition was conceived to be dead. The APRC utilised the provincial tour of the President as an election campaign which was broadcast both by Radio and television for weeks. They made sure that each week came with its own activity. There was no sign of the opposition on state radio and television until the IEC arranged for a TV programme to sensitise the public on multiple registration and the need for those who did so to return their cards.
It was in September that rumours began to spread that opposition parties were meeting to discuss about the formation of an alliance. The women groups of the different opposition parties formed a main pressure group to visit party executive Committee members especially the Secretary General of parties to promote the creation of a United Front.
The talks ended on 14th October 2011 and most of the reports in the media concluded that the talks initiated by the UDP had collapsed.
Others claim that the talks split into two camps, that is, the camp that supports a UDP led alliance comprising the UDP and the PPP, and the camp that supports the holding of a convention to select a flag bearer, that is, GMC, GPDP, NADD, NRP and PDOIS. Recently questions have been raised whether GMC is still a member. Some people have also said that the NRP shall never be part of a convention.
On Saturday it will be clear who is or is not part of the United Front.
Apparently Gambia is poised to have the most unpredictable election process that the country has ever held. No wonder foreign observers have started to conduct their pre-election observations and monitoring. The Common Wealth has done theirs. ECOWAS is on the way.
Each Gambian should now be ready to make his or her vote count."Foroyaa
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