By Mori Ning Kalaa

Kiang West National Assembly Member and Minority leader, Momodou Lamin Sanneh, has promised that a UDP dominated legislature will remove president Yahya Jammeh from power by a vote of no convidence.

The Kiang west MP was addressing a well attended political rally in Serrekunda Central on Saturday - the first ever such meeting since November 24 flawed presidential election in which Yahya Jammeh claimed victory with 72% of the votes. But the regional bloc Ecowas, boycotted its observatory role in the polls citing unfair campaign, total monoply of state media and an unacceptable concentration of power and resources in the hands of the incumbent.

"Now that the presidential election is behind us", Hon. Sanneh said his party is prepared to participate in the parliamentary elections. He said the elections are very important because only the Parliament can vote the president out after the general public. "If you vote us in  with 75%, be assured that we will vote President Jammeh out by a vote of no confidence", he promised.

Hon. Sanneh warned president Jammeh against the use of government vehicles in Kiang West constituency in the March 29 parliamentary elections. He said the results of the November presidential election in his constituency were not a true reflection of his people. The presidential election, Sanneh said, was rigged because the APRC government registered people from nowhere, and used government vehicles to transport those illegal voters to other constituencies, including Kiang West where Jammeh had never won before.

The minority leader also said president Jammeh used trucks belonging to the National Army, the ministries of Agriculture and of defense, World Food Programs (WFP), and those of the National Nutrition Agency (NaNA), which is under the office of the vice president to transport illegal voters. The vehicles, he said, are tax payers' property, and must not be used to defraud the very people of their wishes and aspirations.

In his response to president Jammeh's usual rhetoric that his government will not take development projects to constituencies that vote for the opposition, Hon. Sanneh said such remarks have no place in a democracy, and that Gambia is the only place on earth where a president would say that and get away with it.

More on the rally to come later...