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Momodou
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 Posted - 30 Dec 2010 : 15:35:14
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Hamat Bah to contest 2011 presidential election
By Baboucarr Senghore
Thursday, December 30, 2010 Picture: Hamat NK Bah
In what seems to be a rather interesting move, Hamat N.K. Bah, leader of the opposition National Reconciliation Party (NRP), has announced that he will contest the forthcoming Presidential Election in 2011 as a candidate himself.
Mr Bah, who lost the contest for the Presidential elections on two occassions (in 1996 and 2001), made the announcement yesterday during a press briefing held at the NRP bureau in Banjul.
The briefing, which centered on Hamat Bah’s New Year message to Gambians, also covered pertinent issues ranging from the possibilities of an opposition alliance ahead of the 2011 polls, the country’s economy, the division within the opposition camp, the need for a national conference of all stakeholders, to the political impasse in Ivory Coast.
Bah, who threw his weight behind the UDP in the 2006 elections, also dwelt on issues pertaining the registration of non-Gambians in elections, and Iran-Gambia relations.
According to the NRP leader, he will be a candidate in the 2011 Presidential election, and will not be in any opposition alliance with anybody, where he will be led into an election; instead will lead his party into the 2011 election.
“I will not be a party to any opposition alliance in the coming election, but I will be a candidate in it. I will be a Presidential candidate and my name will be on the ballot boxes come the 2011 election.
“I’m not interested in any opposition alliance, because I have invested so much efforts into a political alliance and I have realized that the partnership of calling an opposition alliance in this country is not genuine, and I don’t want to be in any situation that is not genuine. There is more hatred; there is a lot of hatred within the opposition circles than outsiders may think,” he said.
For the benefit of the readers, we reproduce verbatim the full text of Hamat Bah’s statement:
It is a tradition that at the end of each year, we give out a goodwill message to the people of the Gambia. In doing this, we try to assess the past year and make our forecast for the following year. We thank God that we have survived the year 2010, which was not an easy year.
“It was a difficult year for Gambians and The Gambia, and we must all accept and acknowledge that the numerous problems we encountered, including the economic aspect, has been among the most difficult we have so far gone through since independence.
We also believe that some of these difficulties will still continue in 2011. Some of them were beyond our control, as a country and as a nation, for that matter, because they are related to the economic crisis that has engulfed the world at large. Some were also problems that were peculiar to this country, and that is why we needed to strategize, and take on 2011 differently, as we did in 2010.
First of all, on the political calendar, 2011 will be the busiest year for the last five years, because we are going to face a general voter registration, which is a constitutional requirement. Every Gambian will be issued a voter’s card, and that is a huge task for us all.
The NRP will, no doubt, participate fully in that process, as widely as possible and as extensively as possible. We had a meeting with the IEC this week to discuss the issue of the coming voter registration and, of course, our party convention, which we are planning to have sometime in May or June 2011. The IEC would, hopefully, by end of April have completed the voter registration, because we believe that it is going to be a difficult year, very intensive because parties will be occupied throughout the year.
At the end of the voter registration again, we are going to prepare for the Presidential Election, which we also hope will be in the last quarter of 2011. Let me also make it categorically clear that, by the grace of God the Almighty, I will be a candidate in that election, and I will not be in any opposition alliance with anybody, where I will be led into an election. Instead, I will lead an election.
To summarize that, let me put it in this way. That I will not be a party to any opposition alliance in the coming election, but I will be a candidate in it. I will be a Presidential candidate, and my name will be on the ballot boxes, come the 2011 election.
Let me repeat that, and make it abundantly clear for everybody to hear, and I hope that would clear the doubts left in the minds of some people, who do not believe in the statement I made at Soma during the UDP congress, and the ones I made to the press during my previous interviews. I want to repeat it again, and say that I will, by the grace of God, be a candidate in the coming Presidential Election. That is absolutely clear.
I’m not interested in any opposition alliance, because I have invested so much efforts into a political alliance, and I have realized that the partnership of calling an opposition alliance in this country is not genuine, and I don’t want to be in any situation that is not genuine.
There is more hatred; there is a lot of hatred within the opposition circles than outsiders may think. I don’t want to be in a situation that is not real. I don’t want to be a party to something where we can sit at a table and discuss when you have a knife, and you can cut my head. I don’t want to be a party to anything like that. For me, forget it. It is as simple as that. I am not interested at all, and that is the truth. It’s not what you want to hear, but it’s the truth.
If you know that this party is the biggest opposition party; they have the majority, why do you want to talk about another means of selecting a leader. We know that UDP is the biggest opposition party here. Ousainou Darboe will never go and follow somebody else with his party. So why are people talking about other means of selecting a leader. It’s all out of insincerity as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to be a party to that, and it’s simple.
On the other side is the elections vis-à-vis the IEC. NRP as a party is concerned about the issue of registration of non-Gambians, and we want to advise all Gambians to desist from getting foreigners to register in this country. It has serious ramifications, because you can register a person to vote for you to elect you into office, but the implications can be dangerous. If you give foreigners your national documents, you cannot control what those foreigners are doing outside, after the election. And whatever they do, if they are caught with these documents, the blame comes on us as Gambians.
We must also avoid empowering foreigners too much in this country, because we have seen examples in Fiji, where an Indian who came into Fiji almost took over the whole country. The current crisis in the Ivory Coast is another example. Gbagbo is saying that Ouattara is a foreigner. Yes, he is a foreigner, but he got the documents of that country, and rose to the position of prime minister. So what can they do? Nothing, because he is qualified as a citizen. So this issue of registering foreigners is a short term interest, but a long term disaster for our people, and we must not allow it to happen because we just want to be elected into office.
We are not anti-foreigners. They are welcomed to come and participate in our national development, but they should not participate in the political process of this country. We must curtail it somewhere. This is our country, and we should preserve and protect its integrity. It is rather unfortunate that when you leave your country to go that way, in the next 15 to 20 years time, you will not be able to control or stop those people from doing what they want. And you will end up losing your whole country to people whom you considered as foreigners, but you made them citizens.
I want to advise players in the political field to avoid doing this, because it is dangerous, and has serious ramifications that can run this country into trouble. We should all be unanimous and committed in this, and work on it as political parties, and as citizens. We should protect our national documents, because that has nothing to do with foreigners. We have nothing against them. They are highly welcomed in this country to participate in national development. We are not an island of our own, but we must control what is controllable. That is a very important element in the coming voter registration, and I believe even the journalists should be empowered so that they can get more people to represent them in every registration centre. They should be given the support to be in every polling station. That is an area we all have to work on as partners. With that, we hope we will get a very strong voter register, which is credible, which can deliver results that will be acceptable to every political party.
On the economy, we all know that the economic situation has not been one of the best. There is massive unemployment, companies are going burst because business is bad, and every part of the economy is feeling it now. The rate of unemployment is growing very fast, with government not being able to absorb the people because the resources are not there. Companies, as I said, are dying by the day.
There is the need for us, as a nation, to convene a national conference before the end of the first second quarter of the new year, to discuss the way forward, where every Gambian will be given the opportunity to contribute his quota as to how we move forward this country, with a view to making it possible for every citizen of this country to be engaged in one way or the other, particularly the youth. We should give them the chance to secure jobs for them to participate in national development.
It can no longer be a one man show or one party or one man system. It has to be a system for the entire Gambia, and we cannot fold our hands and let this country degenerate to a situation that will be unmanageable.
When you reach a situation where people are hungry and angry, it is always difficult to manage them, and time is running out.
We need to start talking now, we need to engage each other across the board to discuss issues in this country, and draw conclusions that will get us out of the situation we find ourselves in. It has been made clear that 90 percent of our budgeted income would be generated from taxation, and that is almost impossible. There will be a huge budget deficit, and there will be huge local borrowing at the end of the day. So to avoid such a situation, we need to start doing something now.
With this conference, we can discuss all sectors of the economy and come out with a document that we will use as a country. The earlier we get on to that, the better, because we cannot succeed under the current situation, which is not sustainable, and cannot work.
I also want to suggest that, during this conference, the Commonwealth and the UN are important bodies that need to be drawn into a situation like this, to support us to make sure that we have a successful national dialogue.
It is rather unfortunate that, today, we live in a situation where Gambians are less informed of what is happening with their government. We get more news outside about our government than we get at the local level. These are some of the issues that we need to address.
Until today, the Gambia government has not told Gambians why it broke diplomatic relations with Iran. Iran was an important partner to the Gambia and, until now, we have not been informed. We want to put an end to some of these shortcomings. The serious human rights issues that need to be addressed; the serious economic problem regarding unemployment, and many others; the failure of the agricultural sector, the shortcomings in the health and education sectors, all need to be discussed and addressed once and for all. It is clear that the current situation is not sustainable, and cannot continue.
“When people are hungry and angry, no amount of guns, no amount of weapons can stop them. The only way forward for us now is for us to sit down, and discuss this issue at a national conference, where all of us will sit down, and have a say.
On Ivory Coast, elections are elections, but the current situation in that country is teaching us a lesson; and we are learning a lot from it. What are we learning from Ivory Coast? The old philosophy of people or political parties going by the rule of law after elections; going to the courts to challenge results, is no more reliable in some African countries. The situation in Ivory Coast has vindicated the parties that have been going to the courts complaining about election results; that some of these courts in some of our countries are very unreliable, and that is why the world has proved us right, by saying ‘No’ to the constitutional court’s decision in Ivory Coast. The government there wanted to use the courts to stifle the will of the Ivorian people, and give a loser victory and give the winner the opposite.
Fortunately, this time around, the world is saying ‘No! we are not going to accept it’, and that has discredited some of these courts, with the exception of Nigeria. It is one of the few countries where the ruling party has lost almost all its cases, that were taken by the opposition to court, even to the level of Governors’ elections. We all know the Nigerian judiciary; it is one of the best judiciaries in the world, and that is unshakeable. Unfortunately, what obtains in Nigeria is not what obtains in most African countries.
Therefore, as opposition members, we must start looking for political solutions to our problems, and not legal solutions; because we cannot afford to continue using the system, whilst some of them are not reliable. What you get is not what you deserve. The current situation in Ivory Coast is a clear lesson to the political players in Africa, because these courts are no more reliable.
The judicial system is the referee in a democracy, and where that system is discredited, you have no genuine democracy, and Africa is tired of that now. We want to move on with our development agenda. We have enough of conflicts and most of these conflicts are a recipe for bad leadership.
We have to draw the line somewhere now and say, ‘stop it!’ If the judiciary is not doing its job as a proper referee in a democracy, there is no way we can guarantee elections free of violence; elections that are free and fair, because we rely only on the judiciary. What we need now is political solutions to political problems, and that must be something that we must all take into account.
On that note, I wish all Gambians a happy New Year and a successful 2011 voter registration, Presidential Election, and also successful endeavours in their various walks of life.
Source: The Point
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Kitabul Arerr
Gambia
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Posted - 30 Dec 2010 : 16:36:02
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Let the real "Spoilers", please stand up, please stand up, please stand up........................................lol!
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The New Gambia - Stronger Together! |
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 30 Dec 2010 : 17:08:38
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ANOTHER BOMBSHELL!
A UDP PARTY-LED CANNOT BE BETTER THAN A FAIR LEVEL FIELD FOR ALL PARTIES READY FOR UNITED FRONT, "MERGER" AND PRODUCING AN MOU (MEMORANDUM OF DOCUMENT); PROMOTED BY STGDP IN 2006. TRUE COLOURS & POOR JUDGEMENT ARE BEING EXPOSED OF LEADERS WHO ABANDON IT!
TIMES OF TRIAL & TRIBULATIONS! |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 30 Dec 2010 : 17:24:26
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Here is a man who understands,I have picked out two paragraphs of the reported speech which lead me to form this opinion,together with the fact that there is very little waffle in the speech,very refreshing :
(Not with standing the final three words used in the first quote below 
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/hamat-bah-to-contest-2011-presidential-election
"If you know that this party is the biggest opposition party; they have the majority, why do you want to talk about another means of selecting a leader. We know that UDP is the biggest opposition party here. Ousainou Darboe will never go and follow somebody else with his party. So why are people talking about other means of selecting a leader. It’s all out of insincerity as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to be a party to that, and it’s simple."
"There is more hatred; there is a lot of hatred within the opposition circles than outsiders may think. I don’t want to be in a situation that is not real. I don’t want to be a party to something where we can sit at a table and discuss when you have a knife, and you can cut my head. I don’t want to be a party to anything like that. For me, forget it. It is as simple as that. I am not interested at all, and that is the truth. It’s not what you want to hear, but it’s the truth."
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Janyanfara
Tanzania
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Posted - 30 Dec 2010 : 21:20:47
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Despite my dissappointment with Hon. Bah's decision to run on his won party ticket, there are loads of truth in his statements.
The cornerstone that led him into the decision he took is
THERE IS TOO MUCH HATRED WITHIN THE OPPOSITION CAMP!
Infact I want to add opposition camps have more hared for one another than they have for the APRC. This is the basic fact!
When people think of how to get a common enemy out of power, others think of removing the main faction comanders and replacing it with a junior commander.
We all know it is plain fact that the PDOIS and UDP are not compartible partners due to the fact that diviating from realities and thinking of venturing into the unthinkable or almost imposible would make things even more impossible to form an alliance.
This is what Hamat had seen and made his decision upon.
All the same the main opposition party for now which is the UDP, would continue to rally support from all opposition parties to join its efforts to defeat Yahya Jammeh at the polls.
There is no doubt that when we go to the polls today,UDP would have more votes than any other opposition.This is known to all and cannot be disputed. Then why the HATRED?
Obviously there is more to these bigetting than meet the eye.During previous elections, some oppositions parties were heard at their rallies countering the UDP and opposing it in public as if they are against UDP and not APRC.
These are what Hon. Hamat calls too much HATRED within the opposition camp.
I hope other opposition parties would see the Gambia above individual interest by joining the UDP and respecting the wishes of Gambians which is "MAJORITY CARRYS THE VOTE". Am sure when they do so Hamat and NRP would follow suit.
As a strong supporter of UDP Hope my party leadership consult Gambians, UDP voters and symphatisers before they do anything so as not to fall off track in respecting the wishes of the voting citizens of our motherland!
When ever majority Gambians choose another opposition party other than UDP, UDP would ask its leader who ever he/she may be to join the leader of that opposition party in a coalition and we would honour that party leader to lead such party lead coalition.
TRUTH SHALL FREE US ALL FROM THE CLUTCHES OF jammeh AND NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND.
Who knows APRC might be underground behind the scenes financing some of these so called OPPOSITIONS just to have them campaign against UDP thus giving credit back to APRC.
It is a fact that APRC and Jammeh are more worried about UDP and its leadership than any other opposition.
God bless the Gambia and her people.Long live UDP. |
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dbaldeh
USA
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Posted - 31 Dec 2010 : 10:28:30
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Hamat's statements are a bunch of rubbish and mostly cowardly statements. How can he discuss the governing, economic, political and social problems of the country without mentioning the ruling APRC or President Jammeh not even once???
Who is in control of State Machinery? Who controls what the so called Independent electoral council does? Which party allegedly registers foreigners to vote in the Gambia? Who has the power to create employment in the Gambia? NRP? Who controls the state Media?
Who controls and runs the major economic sectors like Tourism in the Gambia? NRP, PDOIS, UDP? No! It is the Jammeh government that controls everything. So how can anyone talk about the shortcomings of those sectors and not mention the government once?
If there is any hatred in the Gambia, it is within the ruling elites who keep going after each others' throats and looting our State resources and the father of them all is Jammeh...
Is he affraid that he will be locked in the grand Hotel (Mile II) when he mentions the government?
This man cannot be trusted... and making general statements without offering solutions is a bunch of gibberish!!!!
How do you expect the Gambian people to sit down and address the problems when everyone is affraid to be seen as opposition to the government especially private citizens?
If you ask me my thought on his statements, I think he is like Sarah Palin of Alaska making general statements with little substance. This is not the kind of leadership that can rescue Gambia from the hands of dictators.... Nonsense for real!!! |
Baldeh,
"Be the change you want to see in the world" Ghandi
Visit http://www.gainako.com for your daily news and politics |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 31 Dec 2010 : 13:09:27
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dbaldeh.
I have read and thought about your response deeply,I don't like politics,and not being a Gambian I have no wish at all to involve myself in Gambian Politics,however I am very fond of The Gambia and the Gambian people from that standpoint I feel that I can be an interested observer,my observation is that if Gambians want to join the outside world (many Gambians may not want to !) then change has to come,at present it appears that there is no opportunity to change the way things are,Hamat Bah has been very clear in expressing his take on the present Gambia and without making any comment on the administration has shown his thoughts on what an alternative administration MAY be like and in his view it cannot be effective because of infighting amongst those who would wish to change things and have their go at being in power.
There have been discussions here in the past on the type of administration that is suitable for the Gambia,none of which have generated a lot of interest, except that a "one size fits all" model does not exist. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
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Posted - 31 Dec 2010 : 14:04:35
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It has to be recognised that Mr. Hamat N.k Bah is a leader of an independent soveriegn political party with rights to contest elections in the country. Therefore, his decision to go solo has to be respected. He is very honest in his statement, and did not pretend to be for a coalition and then go on utter stuff that are perverse on the modelities of coalition building as known on this planet, unlike others. I commend him for that.
Regards
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I do not oppose unity but I oppose dumb union. |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 31 Dec 2010 : 15:37:42
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My point exactly
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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dbaldeh
USA
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Posted - 01 Jan 2011 : 01:32:43
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So Hamat should be respected to go it solo at the expense of the opposition and the Gambian people then why are other parties branded as arrogant and opportunistic?
Hamat's position is as opportunistic as anybody else... He knows that going it solo is writing an obituary for the opposition come 2011 and beyond.
We should never judge one party's position as right and dismiss others as hypocrites.
My point is, Hamat is as insignificant as any other party if they decide to go it alone regardless of size.
Hamat cannot discuss at length the problems confronting the Gambia without acknowledging the source of the problem. It is done either out of fear for his life or simply a general statement without substance!!
It is every individual citizen's right to form a party and contest the elections but that takes us back to square one... empowering Jammeh for life....
Hamat should have elaborated on the solutions of the opposition lack of cooperation and why there is so much hatred according to his words.
At this point in our political situation we need practical people with practical solutions not general statements of problems every Gambian and the world know already!!!
Happy New Year to all Bantaba folks and your families. May the lord shower us all with blessings and happiness in the New Year!!! |
Baldeh,
"Be the change you want to see in the world" Ghandi
Visit http://www.gainako.com for your daily news and politics |
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01 Jan 2011 : 13:55:03
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| Bull **** nonsense. |
I do not oppose unity but I oppose dumb union. |
Edited by - Nyarikangbanna on 01 Jan 2011 13:56:29 |
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 Jan 2011 : 01:52:11
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Maafanta.com featured this commentary; Mr Jeng’s Article and Mr Daffeh’s Reactionby Al Jawara under http://www.maafanta.com/AlJawaraJengonDaffeh.html
JUST TO FORWARD LINK AS IT REFERRED TO TOPIC. HOWEVER WILL BE BACK LATER!
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Dembish
Gambia
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Posted - 02 Jan 2011 : 01:52:52
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| Based on the ongoing efforts to unite the parties for 2011 elections,if it fails to materialise,one can conclude that PDOIS is the obstacle to the party union and they will never be forgiven by the Gambian public.democracy is about majority and minority CANNOT DICTATE TO MAJORITY, hence PDOIS just has to join UDP and the other parties if they are really sensitive to the plight of the nation as they claim to have or else their political agenda has a hidden motive other than the liberation of the Gambians from the present sad state of affairs.I am sorry but let the spade be call a spade and thats what Hamat Bah has just did. |
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ylowe
USA
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Posted - 02 Jan 2011 : 02:55:57
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| Hamat probably received another fat paycheck. Some of the opposition are on Yahya's payroll,lol. HAPPY NEW YEARS |
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dbaldeh
USA
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Posted - 02 Jan 2011 : 04:38:47
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quote:
Originally posted by Dembish
Based on the ongoing efforts to unite the parties for 2011 elections,if it fails to materialise,one can conclude that PDOIS is the obstacle to the party union and they will never be forgiven by the Gambian public.democracy is about majority and minority CANNOT DICTATE TO MAJORITY, hence PDOIS just has to join UDP and the other parties if they are really sensitive to the plight of the nation as they claim to have or else their political agenda has a hidden motive other than the liberation of the Gambians from the present sad state of affairs.I am sorry but let the spade be call a spade and thats what Hamat Bah has just did.
Dembish, everybody knows the common sense thing to do is for smaller parties to join the bigger party to form a coalition. Many Many Gambians with common sense agree with this position and are working to make this happen.
However, we equally cannot discount the smaller parties and when a party led coalition has to be formed it needs to be done on a solid ground with the party which is going to lead clearly presenting its ideas and how it intends to lead the rest.
In the absent of a solid program presented to all Gambians on how such a coalition is going to move forward there is bound to be skepticism and mistrust. What do I mean..
Well, it was a strong believe among Gambians that UDP is in alliance with NRP but Hamat is coming out now and saying he is going to contest the elections alone. Should we take him for his words or should we continue to believe that when the time comes he will join UDP again.
Second, Mai fatty came out a month ago and hastily declared his premature alliance with the UDP without even finalizing this with the UDP executive and their Diaspora groups. What happens after that, he has gone silence and we did not hear anything more about that.
So what most of us are advocating is that UDP should come up with a solid program document on how it intends to lead a party led coalition and it should continue to work hard along with other interest groups to form a strong alliance with the rest of the opposition parties.
We all know that bringing PDOIS folks into an alliance is a strong challenge simply because of their principles. Can it be done, off course, would it be done at the end of the day?
Here is my take and I have made this suggestions before, if UDP is able to present a strong alliance with all the other parties, along with a strong comprehensive program for the alliance and where it is willing to compromise, then the burden of proof would squarely rest on the shoulders of PDOIS to proof to Gambians that their stand is more reasonable than the rest of the Gambian people.
I say at the end of the day pressure from every corner would be on them and they will yield to the demands of the people. If they fail to yield then every Gambian will hold them accountable for failing to join the rest of the opposition and history will be the judge on their lack of sincerity to the plight of the Gambian people.
This is what many citizens who see partisan as an obstacle are seeing right now. So yes, party led coalition on a strong platform is being embraced my many citizens and it is up to the UDP to present the document and how they are willing to move forward.
This is what Musa jeng's position was before it was thrown into partisan nonsense and finger pointing.
The cheapest thing to do here is for people to continue to blame one side or the other. In the maintime Jammeh is busy consolidating power and hoping to be branded King sooner or later...
So all these partisan bickering is keeping citizens from getting involved and that is exactly the main reason why many Gambians on the ground lost interest in politics...
So every one of us should be working to form a solid union and avoid this partisan fight that takes us no where....
Whether you know it or not a lot of people are taking the middle ground and working to bring everybody on board. No amount of partisan or name calling will discourage common sense citizens from looking for a compromise!!!
Happy New Year... |
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somita
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 Jan 2011 : 11:01:39
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Guys, to some extend I am glad i now live in the Gambia, and while i dont want to be the bearer of bad news, I would like to inform you that the opposition in the Gambia is anything but dead. Not that people a are jolly happy with the current regime, but largely because there is no clear alternative. Mr. Bah has every right to contest the coming election as president and equally citizens too every right to decide where they put their votes. One worring common attribute of the opposition parties in the Gambia, is that they lack basic sense of purpose, democratic leadership and have no solutions to problems and seem to have only one objective, to take over the matra of leadership.
If Mr Bah could take a decision such an important decision without consulting his party base, one wonders how he will rule the country.
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