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kobo
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 Posted - 08 Nov 2011 : 05:55:15
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MAAFANTA.COM WITH Musa Camara COMMENTARY ON;
THE GAMBIA: DARKER DAYS LIE AHEAD
"THE GAMBIA: DARKER DAYS LIE AHEAD
By Musa Camara
FOR A GIST OF GAMBIA’S FUTURE one needs to look no further than the marriage of convenience between the United Democratic Party (U.D.P.), the self-proclaimed ‘best hope’ with the ‘electoral supremacy’ to dislodge Yahya Jammeh’s maladministration in the upcoming election, the dissident groups mainly marooned in the U.S. and U.K., and the online newspapers. One may as well refer to them the next group of Gambia’s plutocrats vying to replace the incumbents for the continuation of a system that will bring no true democracy to the people. These desperate groups have coalesced around a manufactured consensus that’s deeply rooted in justifiable despair but lacks foresight, non-reflective of the needs of the country or conditions on the ground. They have learned nothing from the history of failed states and are intent on setting the country on a new rendezvous with destiny for the continuation of the quagmire that has engulfed our nation. Since political elites are opinion shapers and do to greater degree set the agenda for their people, their conducts and pronouncements in public debates provide an insight into their moral characters.
WHEN THE CONSENSUS of a disillusioned people is rooted in half-truths concocted by the elites with diabolical interests who are equipped with propaganda machine of the new media, the pronouncements that reverberate in their echo chambers are elevated to the status of religious-like injunctions. Even though there’s nothing remarkable about such consensus and the requisite cognitive thinking underpinning them, once they become the dominant beliefs in a society, it requires a great deal of intellectual courage to escape their shackles. The elements of this elite class in our society have coalesced around the claims that Mr. Ousainou Darboe of the U.D.P. is the only person to defeat Yahya Jammeh in The Gambia, that he can do so under his party-led alliance to which he’s unquestionably entitled, and that he’d personally gone to the People’s Center to put his grand offer on the table for the creation of a united front against Yahya Jammeh in the November 24th, 2011 presidential election. But for all his immense trouble, they continued, he was rebuffed by the ‘despicable’ and ‘ungrateful’ Halifa Sallah.
EVEN THOUGH it’s indisputable that any credible opposition candidate in a two-man race against Yahya Jammeh stands a good chance as Ousainou Darboe does, and even has a better chance to attract defectors from the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (A.P.R.C.) to defeat the incumbent, our emerging elites argue that there’s no alternative to Mr. Darboe. Based on their conclusion of his indispensability, they decreed to us matching orders: succumb or be annihilated. The illogicality of their argument is the presupposition that Darboe is irreplaceable which by implication entitles him to the ownership of the voters who supposedly exercised their democratic rights by voting for him. Thus they erroneously concluded that the people would never vote for any other candidate. It’s unfathomable that Gambians of all people, who lived under Dawda Jawara’s autocratic administration that procreated Yahya Jammeh’s totalitarian rule, would ever harbor such archaic beliefs. Sadly it’s so. Our country is in protracted leadership crises because of the dogmatic belief in the irreplaceability of these two men. Where history is bound to repeat itself, the culprits’ and victims’ principal crime is their complicities to consciously fail to learn from great historical occurrences.
HEREIN LIES THEIR rejection of any democratic forum to select a flag bearer for the opposition parties in a united front. Rightly, they dreaded Yahya Jammeh who plots to enthrone himself a king as a reward for his modicum ‘developments,” but in a grand hypocritical detour they do not hesitate to advocate for their crown prince Mr. Darboe be anointed leader of the united front. They preach not what they practice as they, undoubtedly, do not lead by examples. They vilify Halifa Sallah as ‘evil,’ criticize him for ‘stiff rigidity’ and ridicule his numerous proposals ranging from the National Alliance Democracy and Development (NADD) leadership selection mechanism, to a primary, and now delegates’ convention as beating around the bush. As for the crown prince he is adamant on the only non-negotiable position of him leading the alliance.
THE BIG LIE they circulate is the claim that Mr. Darboe has put ‘everything on the table’ to facilitate a united front contrary to the established truth that the U.D.P. proposal was never put to a vote at the negotiations. Notwithstanding the fact that the U.D.P. has not formally released any proposal it made at the negotiations, according to its media acolytes, the proposal includes a one-five year term should Mr. Darboe win the election, an equal distribution of cabinet posts, drafting of a new constitution, a non-endorsement of a candidate in the subsequent election, etc. Regardless of the fact that these are plagiarized from the NADD MoU, it’s common knowledge that they constitute the non-controversial core program of any united front of opposition parties from the various ideological spectrum, and Mr. Darboe’s offering them now as his new grand offer only raised doubts whether he had accepted them at first in 2005. As any sane person or poker player would know, a bargain on the table has to be something material, substantive, immediate and entrammelled with risks for the principal initiator. Because Mr. Darboe’s grand offers will take effect only after the successful outcome of the election and where that failed to materialize, which is a possibility since even his ardent doggy supporters have admitted that he’s not guaranteed to win, therefore the facts as they stand is he’s put nothing material on the table. Instead it’s the other parties which are committed to putting everything on the table and stand to lose were the party-led alliance to fail in the election.
THE DISHONESTY of the most outspoken among them is displayed in the discourse of their dismissal of a convention for all political parties in a united front. The two contending proposals put forward for a convention are by Musa Jeng of Save The Gambia Democracy Project (STGDP), and the People’s Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS). Mr. Jeng’s proposal which favors the U.D.P., as he later admitted, apportioned 50.57 percent of delegates to that party against 49.43 percent to all the other remaining opposition parties. The proposal allocated to PDOIS only 16.09 percent of delegates. Thus that proposal gives U.D.P. a ratio of 3:1 advantage over PDOIS which according to Mr. Jeng PDOIS accepted in its entirety. It lasted only twenty-four hours before it was assaulted by S S Daffeh a U.D.P. ideologue who stated in categorical terms that under no condition would their party participate in a convention even if it were for the patriotic duty to dissipate the dark clouds that hover over the nation. Similarly, the PDOIS proposal now adopted by the United Front allows U.D.P. to increase it delegates above those of other parties by a ratio of up to 4:1 advantage. Even though Halifa Sallah indicated that his party would sent the same number of delegates as the newly established parties, and that PDOIS would not support NADD to send delegates besides its Chairman and the two elected members in public office, Mr. Karamba Touray misrepresented the PDOIS plan to have given NADD the same number of delegates as to the U.D.P. a subterfuge designed to deny their party the leadership of the united front. This disinformation went unchallenged by the moderator of the debate on Senegambia Radio Mr. Demba Baldeh who saw no need for a correction to date. As far as they’re concerned, a man can lie in behalf of a course he believes in without provoking any outrage from the elites. The facts are public and clear for all those who care to know the truth. The PDOIS proposal is just one on which its members could speak for whereas others could speak for their own proposal as Mr. Jeng to his credit brilliantly did for his plan. Instead, Mr. Sallah is disparaged for simply having a proposal he advocated for, but even more unconscionable the dissidents give credit to Mr. Darboe for attending the negotiation at the People’s Center not Mr. Sallah who provided his office to facilitate the talks.
THE INTELLECTUAL BANKRUPTCY of The Gambian opposition elites is evident in their reaction to or dismissal of ideas that challenge their worldview, demonstrate the inadequacies of their political experiences, and rupture asunder their comfort zones. They are tormented by calls for participatory democracy either in primaries or delegates conventions and they would do everything to stop them. Despite successful democracies like the United States built their foundations, established the durable structures of their institutions and instruments in delegate conventions, our elites told us that we do not need them. Quite frankly, they want the leisure of democracy without putting in the toil it requires. No wonder they dismiss every modest proposal even a simple convention as a fancy theory or a complicated process that confuses them beyond all comprehension. The party-led alliances they clamor for inspired not by imaginative thinking but out of their lack of intellectual creativity is a copycats of those in Kenya and Senegal which brought those countries to the brink of total collapse.
THE YELLOW JOURNALISM of the online newspapers betrays the core values and principles of journalism. Pa Nderry M’Bai of Freedom Newspaper occupies the abyss of gutter journalism that defiles the ethics of the news media profession for all ages. In his egomaniac self-promotion he embraces the U.D.P. to dramatize conflicts instead of simply reporting the facts and events. Whereas he touts Mr. Darboe’s latest speech as the greatest oration to have ever been given in the history of the world, he censured all other news on the United Front founded by the other political parties. The only mentioned of the United Front on his website, by the time of the writing of this article, is by Seedy Ceesay in The Jamano Program that broadcast the conference live from Banjul. Mr. M’bai’s reportage reaches the nadir of journalistic standard as the following demonstrates:
Another source who spoke to us said the ongoing talks between Bah, Gomez, Sallah, and Lawyer Assan Martin to select a flag bearer ha[ve] failed. "The meeting between Hamat Bah, NADD, PDOIS, and Lawyer Martin ha[s] failed. They are trying to fool Martin that he is going to be their Presidential candidate. This information is coming from very reliable sources," said the source, who is sympath[et]ic to the opposition.
Mr. M’bai is a serial manufacturer of news, an accusation leveled against him by his former colleagues for outright lies in concocting news stories to have earned him the euphemistic nonetheless dishonorable trademark Nyambaas. Here he exhibits his unique talent by quoting an unnamed source who is also quoting other anonymous individuals who are said to be sympathetic to the United Front. Mr. M’bai’s ingenious resourcefulness and creativity with fictitious sources would not meet even the standards of Fox News #8213; his role models in journalism. Nothing is more obnoxious of him than his lack of conscience and integrity, fatuous sense of duty to his readers or country, and destitution of decency and honesty to allow a simple reporting of the facts on the new United Front. Similarly, the proliferation of the dastardliness that permeates among these amateur journalists clouds their judgment to allow more than twenty-four hours news blackout on the newly established United Front. Up to the writing of this article, Freedom Newspaper and Senegambia News have no story of the United Front but the latter has published Mathew Jallow’s polemical piece on it without any need to cover the news that warranted the crude diatribe. Not surprisingly, Yahya Jammeh’s Daily Observer published no story on the formation of the United Front. One would only imagine the new veils of censorship to decent upon us were the U.D.P. to win the election and Mr. M’bai is appointed the Director of Broadcasting of The Gambia Radio and Televisions Services.
The Online journalists’ loathing for Halifa Sallah reached a new low with the juvenile-like tantrums displayed by Mr. Yankuba Jambang of Senegambia News which deserves no further discussion. But let’s look at this heavily editorialized news story that makes references to independent observers and opinions holders without any named source of the conflicting views by the more serious Gainako News wallowing in the despair of what they call the collapse of the talks: The rationale behind Halifa's argument as reported is that the selected candidate through a convention would truly be the representative of the people...however, one wonders how individual leaders of political parties who were selected through [a] convention[s] by their party supporters do[es] not constitute leaders representing the people?
The shift within the rhetorical question from “would truly be the representative of the people” to the garble “do not constitute leaders representing the people” leaves one to wonder if this is due to an incompetence, willful distortion or honest confusion. As such, The Gambian Online newspapers trumperies should be thrown on the tumbrel to dustbin of armchair journalism. This notwithstanding, the Gainako News crew could take an instructive lesson on democratic principles and the limits on the authority of leaders on behalf of their people from Mr. Mai Fatty’s statement indicating that even though representatives of his party at the talks voted for a convention, they had no such authority from its general body. After all, PDOIS is not as complicated a party as the Gambia Moral Congress (GMC), but as for the Gambian dissidents, the renege goes unnoticed because it does not serve their narratives. Anyone who has ever enrolled in an introductory political science class would understand that larger decision making bodies for any organization or society are more representatives, more direct, reflect the true will of all its members and are closer to the grass roots in mass movements. Unfortunately, for The Gambian elites in the critical juncture of darkest hours in constructing a democracy in our country grassroots representation is unthinkable, unacceptable, unnecessary, cumbersome and too onerous a democratic process for the indolent poor.
THE SPEECH OF A LIFETIME was delivered by Mr. Darboe and the consensus of the reviews by the dissidents in the media is that it’s the speech they have been longing for from their ‘messiah’ waiting to be president. Some among The Gambian Diaspora lamented why he had not given it fifteen years ago. Were that speech — laden with religious undertones and political malapropisms like “deliverance,” “curse,” “blessing waiting,” “glory and grace,” “talisman,” “solemn and eternal pledge” — delivered in Pashtun, one would excuse the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Banjul for mistaking it a Mullah Omar address to Taliban General Assembly in Waziristan, Pakistan. Above all, it juxtaposes Lawyer Darboe’s impending Gambia of semi-divine Monarchy against Yahya Jammeh’s Gambia of autocratic Monarchy. The fundamental deficiency of the speech is the fact that Mr. Darboe called on voters to support his alliance but he failed to announce to the people who the alliance members are, when it was formed, and he never informed the people of its arrangement, vision and mission. What an utter incompetence! He promised to run a country where the common citizen will be judged on merits but would not subject himself to any democratic competition to be judged on his qualities regarding the flag bearer of the united front. Were meritocracy the sole determinant for political leadership in The Gambia neither Jammeh nor Darboe would be in the contest for the presidency. Not surprisingly, both the incompetence and double standards of the ‘messiah’ notwithstanding the mediocrity in the delivery of the speech went unnoticed by the chatterboxes on the internet radios. Their standard in journalism is no lower than those for their leadership requirements or policy soundness.
HALIFA SALLAH is the worst nightmare to Gambian intellectuals both at home and abroad and justifiably so because he put them to shame. The pseudo-masochistic among them work for the government that dehumanizes them and brutalizes their countrymen with abuses they endure for the ‘rational’ justification of self-preservation and primary responsibility to families. To them, principled stance is an intellectual taboo to the extent that the Gambian society has internalized them as dogmatic or purist folly. They call this pragmatism. And for those who are abroad mostly on self-imposed exile, Mr. Sallah reminds them of their insecurities, deficiencies and lack of the courage for their conviction if they have any at all. The vast majority of them do not plan to spend their productive years in the country but treat it only as their vacation spot or retirement center. There are no greater abettors and sustainers of Yahya Jammeh in power – not even the APRC combatants, the Green Boys and Girls. They mostly abdicated their responsibilities to country or deferred them to Mr. Sallah but insist that he acts according to their dictates without any independent judgment of his own. Where he disagrees with them on principle they dismiss him as insignificant and project their failures onto him. There is no place in the world and time in history where and when the William Butler Yeats’ the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity is partly false and partly true than in The Gambia depicting a contrast between Mr. Sallah and his political or intellectual nemeses.
ON ONE HAND, Mr. Sallah believes that the people should be empowered through democratic institutions with self-correcting mechanisms, that leaders within organizations, coalitions and the country should derive their just powers from the people; and the people should be educated politically to facilitate transformational changes. His higher democratic values have earned him the respect and confidence of the U.S. Mission in Banjul that he would be the best to bring democracy to The Gambia. His nemeses and detractors on the other hand believe in coronations, pseudo-democracy, and naively advocate for the people to wait for their political education after they elect an enlightened administration into office. Incontrovertibly, they in essence turned reality to stand on its head. Therefore, it’s only after these facts are adequately established can Miss. Fatou Jaw Manneh’s frantic exasperation “Halifa can’t you See?” be asked in its proper manner: Gambian elites can’t you see what Halifa has seen?
IT’S INDISPUTABLE THAT ANY GAMBIAN, be an APRC, UDP, PPP, NRP or of whatever political persuasion or non-affiliated believes that PDOIS is the best party to run The Gambia were it elected into office. They concur that PDOIS has the credibility, plans and programs, knowledge and respect, temerity and trustworthiness, pedigree and magnanimity to catapult The Gambia into modernity. They lament, however, that The Gambians are not yet ready for such mature politics and it would take generations for the people get there. Thus the harshest critics of PDOIS are nothing less than determinist social Darwinists who diminish their own heritage and insult the people. The mediocrity of The Gambian political class and the expediencies of its leaders have now left the people vulnerable to successively elect into office their tormentors but even worst, they stand at the brinkmanship to surrender their natural rights by imposing a monarchy over themselves and their posterity. Therefore, since we’ve established that majority of Gambian political class acknowledges the virtues of PDOIS but subscribes to the unreadiness of their country for its enlightened administration, we can now redirect Demba Baldeh’s hasty conclusion that “PDOIS is on the wrong side of history or on the wrong side of The Gambian people” to a more appropriate but unpleasant question: are Gambian political elites on the wrong side of their own history? This is a moral question the APRC supporters with the majority of the remaining opposition members comprising 94 to 98 percent of the country - excluding the PDOIS sympathizers whose countrymen now stand against them - would have to writhe to confront and answer. Until they’re ready to look in the mirror, actively engage in some introspection, see themselves through the eyes of their critics - including the world’s matured democracy The United States - and provide valid answers to this question, the future looks no less bleak as the past and the present. We should dust up William Faulkner’s Requiem for the Nun to recite day and night: “The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.”
NOTE: Freedom Newspaper has published a story that the United Front selects Mr. Hamat Bah as its flag bearer at a convention, notwithstanding this, the premises of the argument of this article still stand."Maafanta.com
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Ebra
Gambia
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Posted - 08 Nov 2011 : 06:22:10
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| Bayaya/Oga for president. This year will be the final days of UDP/PDOIS and all other political parties. Oga will win with huge margin and then crowning him will be the next thing on the agenda. No more elections is the sad part. |
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
1382 Posts |
Posted - 08 Nov 2011 : 11:10:05
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Originally posted by Ebra
Bayaya/Oga for president. This year will be the final days of UDP/PDOIS and all other political parties. Oga will win with huge margin and then crowning him will be the next thing on the agenda. No more elections is the sad part.
Ebra, don't give-up yet. There is still hope. And find this writer above. He is clueless and distraugted.
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I do not oppose unity but I oppose dumb union. |
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maple
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 Nov 2011 : 13:53:57
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My Sierra Leone English teacher once told us in class "do we know why Gambians perform very poor in English?" His simple answer was because we are not good liars. This essay is therefore what my English teacher would have graded A star as its full of half truth.
Democracy is a process and Gambia is not yet USA and even there its people of the same party i.e Democrats and GOP that do primaries and then convention. I think PDOIS is listening to it party members in USA a lot and forgetting to remind them that Gambia is not USA. PLEASE STOP DAY DREAMING and stop serving us half cooked meat for our consumption as we Gambians like our meat fully cooked. |
"Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear" Paulo Coelho. |
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
1382 Posts |
Posted - 08 Nov 2011 : 17:14:49
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Exactly my point, maple.
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I do not oppose unity but I oppose dumb union. |
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Janko
Gambia
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Posted - 08 Nov 2011 : 21:40:46
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| Interestingly, the saidman threw the “baby with the birth-water”, by falling for the very “Fox news;fair and balance” journalistic he is out to critique. |
Clean your house before pointing a finger ... Never be moved by delirious Well-wishers in their ecstasy |
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shaka
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Posted - 08 Nov 2011 : 23:39:38
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| Bloody hell!! English Language is the new Greek. Some people will have to be put in a classroom for the rest of their lives but will still never grasp Greek. Brilliant Mr Camara. Awesome!!!! I love beautiful minds. |
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maple
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09 Nov 2011 : 01:38:59
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Coiled from freedom newspaper:
"By A Sarr-Johnson
I write with bitter taste of seeing my one time Idol and opinion leader self-destruct. Today, I would rather prefer Pa Nderry Mbaye of Freedom Newspaper to run for President than Halifa Sallah.
Is this really a pact against any Mandinka opposition leader by Hassan Martin, Hamat, Gomez and Halifa? As a non-Mandinka, I find the pact troubling and scary, because hearing Yahya Jammeh’s frequent jibes at Mandingos, and seeing a collection of non-Mandingos surround a lesser challenger to the incumbent, I am wondering, are our prejudices greater than we make it out?
The pact has shown lack of sensitivity and a hand of reconciliation like it has happen in Tunisia, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya where larger opposition party leads with the backing of smaller ones. But sadly, UDP may have committed a crime by allowing a Mandingo to lead instead of non-Mandingo. OJ Jallow is a quiet hero by doing what is right.
As an keen PDOIS supporter, using my lunch money to buy the Foroyaa all throughout high School, I can safely say, I was overwhelmed by the message and conduct of the Senior Executives. Since after the 2006 election, it became necessary to look at the Senior Executives with a more sober and independent, detached mind and scrutiny.
Uncle Sam Sarr became invincible; Sedia too inconsistent and subservient to Halifa, Adama Bah took a backseat and Suwaibu, a partial behind the scene follower. PDOIS became the voice and opinion of Halifa. This led to seeing many boring commentaries, frequent monotonous interviews of Halifa by Foroyaa.
The spirit that pushed some of us to PDOIS was the hope that, they were for diversity and honest politics. This was not the case, so far as it became hard for them to attract followers and contributors to the party’s cause. The senior Executive, mainly Halifa took it upon himself to be unreasonable and inculcate some tolerance to his fellow opposition leaders.
What end it for me is the fact that, Sedia never acts to bring calmness and intelligible alternative to the PDOIS directives. Sam Sarr simply disappeared to the Foroyaa publishing. This leaves Halifa a free hand to do as he like. And for me, that is dictatorial, rigid and un-reconciliatory.
Why wouldn’t PDOIS, or Halifa be reconciliatory to the larger Opposition party? Mr. Samba Jow and some others wanted to write sidetracking readers, but in God's name, can we be honest and respect that, Gambians are not children. Halifa singular insistence on his ideas cause disunity and empty rethorics.
Even the much respected Prof Abdoulie Saine had it with on Freedom Radio. But Halifa is too caught up in the 70's thinking to change.
After a recent trip to the Gambia with my European husband, I spend some time speaking to people and seeing what is happening. In fact, you hardly hear anything about PDOIS, NRP or Gomez. The two people arguments and debates are composed around is President Yahya and Lawyer Ousainou. In fact, APRC members wouldn’t even be drawn into discussing PDOIS, because we are not a threat and have never been neither is there any indication that we will in the near future.
The politics in Africa is never perfect just like the rest of the world. However, to accept the dominance of a particular opposition party is the height of maturity, tolerance and lack of bitterness. I am not a UDP member or supporter, but I will vote for them if that will bring change on the 24 of November.
Hamat Bah is now given a sweet, with the title, opposition united leader, Halifa may come and present himself to us in another five years time as someone who sacrificed to let Hamat lead. If that contention is true, why then didn’t he allow a party with the support base, connection, funding and wherewithal to lead instead of insisting on his instrument of convention?
By the way, Mr. Lamin Darbo did well by angering us PDOIS supporters, but he stated the facts. I thank you Mr. Mbaye in advance for publishing my contribution. Please continue on the good work. You are an asset for the Gambia.
Unless, the old guards in PDOIS move on, I am withholding my support for the party."
I hope others will see and know we are in 2011 and not 1970. |
"Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear" Paulo Coelho. |
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sankalanka
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Posted - 09 Nov 2011 : 02:59:28
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What I find interesting about these anonymous letters or letters with a fictitious name identity is that they seem to represent the same material content. Either someone purporting to be a PDOIS supporter in this instance, and then lambasting our sensibilities with the same tired argument of a party-led alliance, or of Hallifa and PDOIS being stumbling block.
What I also find interesting in some of the opinions that have been circulated in the online media outlets, is that most of them have been written by the same person or persons, of course with fictitious names, bearing the same material content. This is nothing more than a propaganda campaign by a few desperate people who just wouldn't give up and see the Gambian political reality for what it is.
PDOIS have been able to survive the Gambian political reality for almost three decades, making itself relevant and necessary, and I am sure it will continue to survive the same Gambian political reality after the aftermath of this elections. To wish otherwise is to be quite delusional.
To the young, progressive and dynamic new members of PDOIS, who have moved from being supporters to party members, prepare yourselves to be in the forefront of our national dialogue, so that the face of PDOIS may no longer be the Halifa Sallah's and Sedia Jatta's but the Pa Samba Jow's, Jabou JOh's, Malick Kah's and many more who Gambians will come to know of.
I am very encouraged and heartened that the future looks promising.
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Senegambia
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Posted - 09 Nov 2011 : 09:13:13
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Paranoid minds! Sometimes it is smart to take criticisms in good faith. You can't fight or discredit everyone out to criticize your PDOIS or Sallah or any other party for that matter. He chooses to be anonymous just like 95% of us, so what? That's his choice.. I don't agree with everything he says but certainly he's got some relevant points.
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Originally posted by sankalanka
What I find interesting about these anonymous letters or letters with a fictitious name identity is that they seem to represent the same material content. Either someone purporting to be a PDOIS supporter in this instance, and then lambasting our sensibilities with the same tired argument of a party-led alliance, or of Hallifa and PDOIS being stumbling block. .....
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sankalanka
270 Posts |
Posted - 09 Nov 2011 : 13:33:53
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Senegambia, you are absolutely right. I was just saying. I should have just kept quiet. |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 09 Nov 2011 : 15:24:48
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No,not, at all common sense is ALWAYS welcome here
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Originally posted by sankalanka
Senegambia, you are absolutely right. I was just saying. I should have just kept quiet.
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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kobo
United Kingdom
7765 Posts |
Posted - 09 Nov 2011 : 23:08:50
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Originally posted by maple
Culled from freedom newspaper:
Gambia: READER / LETTER WRITER WANTS FREEDOM EDITOR TO RUN FOR GAMBIAN PRESIDENCY! After This Election, Halifa Sallah Should Be relegated To History
By A Sarr-Johnson
The above article appears to be Editor's own clandestine scheming skills always done to impersonate and sell a story; for cheap propaganda, to ridicule and destructive purpose aimed at PDOIS/Halifa? There is no doubt UDP and Freedom are on marriage of convenience and UDP is now enjoying the new found love with Editor and its radio programmes dedicated round the clock propaganda and mobilising for them; on "the quick-fix" strategy to rally behind UDP Leader and its partisan Party-Led stance 
The underlying framework, instruments, issues, common ground, political platform for ownership, power, control and clear sense of direction under partisan "party-led" coalition/alliance/united front are indifferent and at odds to a national unity coalition/alliance/united front? At these critical times, recent talks does not cater for any "quick-fix", spinning, individual(s) interest(s), egos, partisan agenda, bad precedents/legacy amongst others? Many articles are biased, opinionated, subjective, sensationally flawed and farce towards the common goal for 2011 and beyond; for failure to focus arguments on NATION FIRST; IN SPIRIT OF NATIONAL UNITY, COMPATRIOTS, PARTNERSHIP AND SOLIDARITY
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