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Gambia : " May The Opposition Rot In Hell Fire "President Jammeh

President Jammeh on Friday 9th March prayed that the Gambian political opposition goes to  hell. President Jammeh was speaking, at about 22.30 Gambian local time to thousands who gathered in his plush Kaninlai residence to celebrate his landslide victory of the September 2006 presidential polls and his party’s impressive capture of forty-two of the forty-eight seats in this year’s January 25th legislative elections. Friday’s party was reportedly that of his native Foni Kansala’s district’s celebration of the electoral victories. Each of the country’s scores of districts are expected to hold victory celebrations that had been laid out to the general public, in regular radio and television advertisements as if they were official state events. State media had been making regular radio and television announcements of the celebrations urging ruling party supporters not to forget to report in time and informing them of where to catch the nearest free transport to the feast that will run on till Sunday March 11th. Millions are expected to be spent on such activities that usually keep anti-AIDS activists holding their breath in consternation.. 
Speaking to the reveling multitudes President Jammeh paid the usual recognition to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Secretaries of State, chiefs and alkalolus present, and an un-introduced delegation from Guinea Bissau for their presence. He said he was going to be brief this time around. He said the cause of the gathering was to celebrate an electoral victory. He reminded Gambians of the great “developmental strides” the country has taken under his thirteen year rule  This, he told the applauding crowd, was done “in thirteen years without oil, what do you think we cannot do with oil in the next five years?”, Mr. Jammeh asked rhetorically. But returning to an earlier campaign threat, he said “those who voted for me in the presidential elections and for my candidates in the legislative elections will not regret it, but I must repeat those who voted against me, like I warned during the campaign, swearing by the Holy Koran, will regret that they did.” Monitored on GRTS radio the crowd roared in appreciation. Mr. Jammeh said that Gambia would “shock the world” with the development he promised he would bring to all sectors of the country’s affair in the course of the next five years. He said this was made possible by purported Gambian unity, ninety-eight percent support for me and the claimed discovery of oil.”
The mercurial Gambian leader likened the festivities to the forty-day charity customarily held for departed men. He joked that “this is the forty-day celebration of the departed opposition, anyone who now remains in the opposition must join them in hell.”