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Posted - 06 Jan 2007 : 17:19:27
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“GPDP IS NOT PUTTING UP ANY CANDIDATE,” GOMEZ By Bubacarr K. Sowe
The Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress is not going to participate in the January 25 National Assembly elections, said its Secretary General on Wednesday.
Mr. Gomez told Foroyaa that his party’s target is the next presidential elections, expected in 2011. “I was only having one goal and that was for all opposition leaders to come together, but since I cannot achieve this goal, then it is too sad,” Gomez said. He added that since the opposition is divided, he is afraid that what happened in the presidential elections will repeat itself. “We always have to learn from our mistakes, but if we still do not learn from our mistakes we are still going to face the same problem like some couple of months ago,” he said. On the formation of a tactical alliance with various parties, he said that it was what GPDP was calling for, and it is unfortunate they are not participating this time around. Asked whether he will support his UDP and NRP friends, Gomez said there is no friendship in politics. Gomez added that it is useless to contest since the outcome is foreseen. “We have seen what happened in presidential elections. And we can only have a chance of giving President Jammeh a headache by building a united force which you know we are not following; we are only following our self interest, following our big heads and we are trying to build up big muscles. But to think of the interest of this nation let’s join hands together, where NADD is putting up a candidate GPDP or NRP or UDP should not put up a candidate and we all support the opposition candidate in each constituency,” Gomez posited.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issues Issue No. 002/2007, 5-7 December, 2007
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