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shaka
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 Posted - 10 Oct 2011 : 04:10:52
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The debate is heated, the rage intensified and the venom pofusely seep through the bile ducts. All directed at one man. Their saviour and villain. Yes it is the election season in The Gambia again. How so can this one man be a saviour and villain at the same time? Good question! Ask the kingmakers of the Gambia diaspora. For at their feet they have gathered a pile of rocks and stones for the pelting feast and in front of them clamouring to dodge their weapons is the man they love to hate at this time of the season since 2006. The mob is wild as Halifa Sallah staggers from pillar to post trying to shield from their pallets for dear life. His only crime is that "he is not willing to endorse" the process they have hatched to annoit the king they wish to enthrone. The Puppet King.
The Puppet King, they say, is their Last Chance Saloon in these wee hours before the great battle against the evil Emperor Professor. He would not have made last not to mention top in their order of pick had "time not been against them" - it is only a month before the great battle you see. They say the Puppet King is not leadership material. He has no set beliefs, ideas, principles or policies to present to the people as an alternative to the Emperor's dictatorship. He's a coward who scappers to foreign missions for sanctuary every time the Emperor barks. The Yanks and Senegalese missions are fed up seeing him run to their abode "to complain about Jammeh or the APRC" at the mere sound of thunder or a burst car tyre. He is also, they say, remote controlled by a minority of his supporters in the diaspora and is never seen to be firmly in control of himself or his actions. Never-the-less he has the largest group of supporters among the opposition and he came from the biggest tribe some dare say.
For the deluded diaspora Kingmakers they believe they wield the strongest and the most superior constituent amongst the opposition. They are the "most learned" and the weathiest of the lot. By virtue of these assets they wield the power to determine who ascends the Presidency. How dare Halifa Sallah refuse their proposal. They want to usurp the right to choice and freedom to determined the kind of governance and leadership from the people. This, they say is the surest and quickest way to boot out the dictatorship and end their long endured self-imposed exile existentence in Babylon, for the long due authentic Mbahals, Cheb bu jenn, Super Kanja and Domodas that awaits them back home. How very dare Sallah deny them this right.
For Sallah and The PDOIS the right and privilege to determine leadership and choice of goverment belong to the Gambian people as a collective and not a sellected few. The people must be seen to have a choices in front of them and to be able to choose at their own free will and not what a deluded few in the diaspora choose for them. The PDOIS is not in negotiation with the rest of the oppostion to elect a UDP government. That privilege belongs to the people. The PDOIS is in negotiation to help form and usher in a transition government to set right and give back to the people what have been stolen, manipulated and mutilated by the Jammeh Dictatorship. It is not for The PDOIS to bring to power a UDP government that inherits the excesses and powers of the dictatorship that is forcing the people into servitude.
The notion of a UDP led transion government is not oly farcical as it is stupid, it also trounces the very essence of independence and coherence of a transition government. The only position that is elected in the executive of a UDP led government is the Presidency. All other positions are either nominated or chosen by the UDP President if elected, as well as other powers like dissolving Parliament at The President's whims and caprices as the constitution stands todate. Therefore to call a UDP led coalition government a transition government among equals is the dumbest thing i have ever heard. You can promise Halifa Sallah the Vice Presidency, Hamat Bah the Finance Ministry, Henry Gomez Foreign Affair etc but as long as President Darbo has the power to kick their butts even before they touch their respective seats, the rule of "ma waax waaxeet" is superior to all else. It is therefore absolutely ridiculous and outright delirious to attempt to spin a 'UDP led trsnsition goverment.' Plain stupid.
For those of you tying to engineer a faux democracy inorder to attend to your needs for authentic Gambian dishes, i'd say there is still a bit of waiting to do. You cannot force Sallah to forego his democratic principles and great visions of future progress of our nation for you instant gratifications. Call him all the names on this planet as you want. Dogmatic, over-intellectualised, arrogant and selfish. I'm damn sure he had grown a thick skin to all these insults over the course of his political career.
He sat among his equal - men and women of the highest intellectual standing and professional discipline - and help formulate the 1997 constitution before it was butchered by the AFPRC, yet every day of your life you single him out to fault for a 'flawed constitution.' And yet it is Sallah who is over-intellectualised. He sat among his peers(constitutional lawyers among them) and together drafted the NADD MOU and its attendant documents. Yet still for the self righteous imbeciles he is the architect of everything bad about NADD to suit his personal agenda. Oh yes it is Sallah who is over-intellectualised not those who dissect his utterings to shreds every day of their sorry lives looking for pathetic soudbites, faults, red herrings, dogma and ideologies as the ultimate sins.
Now you want him to commit even more 'sins' by helping to usher in a constitutional coup d'etat for you mastubate intellectually in future as soon as the abouvious cracks begin to appear. Can't you find better use for you brains!!
When the going gets tough with the dictator you look for nobody in particular but Sallah as your intellectual saviour and guide. When he does not toe your line as quickly as possible he becomes a villain. For a man and his party you love to insult so much as incapable of yielding 5% of the votes in any elections how do you come to put the burden of 'saviour of the people' on his shoulders. For a man with so little influence in the voting exercise surely he cannot possibly hold to ransom any opposition coalition effort. Hamat Bah told you categorically that there is no way he is joining a UDP-led coalition and i see no hiss of fits - and he supposively is the heir to more than 10% of any votes cast anytime. Sallah says "let's look for an alternative to a UDP-led coalition;" "bring the go damn cross, lets crucify the tyrant" becomes you deafening reactios. Are you people well? Or do you expect Hamat to be a Happy Larry you just offer some mbiskit medina for him to start screaming "weeew Darbo, da ma don chahan rek" Get a friggin life all of you Saddos.
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Edited by - shaka on 10 Oct 2011 04:18:38 |
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