By Mama A. Touray
Marie Sock- Jobarteh, one of the disqualified presidential aspirants, has called for peace and stability as the 4th December presidential election due.
Speaking at a rally, Ms Sock advised citizenry that they “should maintain a status quo for peace as we head towards the December 4 presidential election. I urged the president to maintain calmness and the youth as well, though we know he is too nervous.”
“International community observers who are in The Gambia, I hope you are observing if you do not understand the language His Excellency the president of The Gambia should please take some translators on the campaign trails because we the UDP advise everyone to be calm.”
“What I’m about to say is going to the taxi drivers in Pal Marma, Senegambia and all over the country your Tourism Minister Hamat NK Bah is hanky-panky with you all over the country campaigning while we are in pit of tourism season in the Gambia. There is no one at the office and there is no office working in the government,” she said.
“The cabinet should not be involved in your campaign as no one asked you to establish a political party in your office and now you have caused politics of conflict in your office, everyday till election I will send you a message because I want you to learn that the time is here you need to be yourself and begin to make a decision where you are to be or where you are to go,” she added.
She said President Barrow will see surprise on December 4 saying “Barrow will see something that he has never seen before because he doesn’t know what is underground.”
She called on Gambians to vote for lawyer Ousainou Darboe for him to bring lots of developments in the country, adding the people of the country have been suffering under Barrow’s five years of rule.
