In the 2006 presidential elections, when all the electoral regions in The Gambia gave a loud victory to incumbent APRC’s Yahya Jammeh, Kiang West constituency boldly stood out as the exception.
In the 2007 parliamentary polls, this impoverished provincial district in the Lower River Region of The Gambia even defied president Jammeh’s threats for further impoverishment and voted an opposition-UDP sponsored candidate into the National Assembly.
In the 2011 presidential elections, however, this area that infact neighbored president Jammeh’s birth constituency of Foni Kansala fall to the ruling APRC - for the first time since Jammeh peeled off his military uniform to race as a civilian for the country’s top job in 1996.
But for the opposition-parliamentarian Momodou Lamin Sanneh, whose seat is visibly under threat, there are more anomalies to ruling APRC’s resounding victory in his area, than the Independent Electoral Commission is determined to handle.
 And The Gambia is gearing up for yet another National Assembly elections slated for March 29. Ahead of this undertaking, Mr Sanneh, who doubles as the leader of the minority opposition NAMs in the largely ruling-APRC dominated parliament has warned to shoot at any of such election anomalies.
“President Yahya Jammeh had never won in that constituency for the past 17 years,” Sanneh noted as he mounted the podium last weekend during his party’s mass political rally at Ebony in Serekunda Central constituency.
“The results of the presidential elections are fraudulent. The elections were marred by threats and gross abuse of incumbency.”
Sanneh accused the APRC government of transporting people from urban-Gambia to his area to register and vote.
“I protested about that in the local newspapers at the time but government never paid heed. We will not allow it to be repeated in the March parliamentary elections,” Sanneh warned with a raised finger.
He alleged that  APRC under the patronage of Yahya Jammeh used trucks belonging to various supposed politically neutral institutions including the army, ministries and even UN-World Food Programs (WFP), among others in political activities.
These vehicles allocated to these institutions, he said are funded by the tax payer, thus it is a violation of the electoral code for them to be used and abused by only one party.
He added further: “The Gambia is the only country in the whole world where a sitting president tells his people that there will be no development for areas where he has no support.”
Here, the Minority Leader was making reference to president Jammeh’s typical threat that his government’s development projects will go into areas where he has mass support.
Sanneh pointed out that the funds that are put into development projects in The Gambia are not from president Jammeh’s purse. These, he told his party militants, are funded through the taxes paid, as well as loans and grants.
“It is therefore not acceptable that a president can tell his people that there will be no development for people who did not support him.”
The national president of UDP, Dembo Bojang alias Dembo By-Force, a former member of parliament of Bakau constituency for 25 years, said the presidential elections results of Bakau are unrealistic.
“What happened is that thousands of voters were the category of military and police who were not registered in Bakau, but were said to be on election duties at the time.”
 He promised that the problem will be very much taken cared of, come the parliamentary elections.