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Dalton1
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 Posted - 01 Sep 2011 : 17:04:26
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The Last Call
Happy belated Eid-ul fitr, ladies & gents!
As the opposition braces for a talk on Saturday September 3rd, we must not fold our hands and just watch opportunity slide by again. Please call our leaders back home and ask them to unite for the sake of Allah and the Gambia we all belong. It is certain that only a united front will unseat Jammeh. Please take the opportunity of what is happening to signal a strong message.
Darboe -991-1588
OJ-991-6474
Halifa -439-3177
Hamat-
Henry-
Else –
Kind Regards,
Yero
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"There is no god but Allah (SWT); and Muhammad (SAW)is His last messenger." shahadah. Fear & Worship Allah (SWT) Alone! (:
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kobo
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Posted - 01 Sep 2011 : 23:24:17
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1. NOTE FEW INTERESTING QUOTATIONS AS RECAPS 
UDP LEADER'S NEW YEAR MESSAGE;
"2011 is a pivotal year in which Gambians will have to decide from among competing visions in elections scheduled to take place in the coming months. On the one hand they can choose to continue the status-quo in which most Gambians are trapped in grinding poverty, fearful of their own government, and wondering what the future holds for them and their children. The other choice is for Gambians to choose CHANGE for the better."
"The fight for justice requires every Gambian to see him or herself as a victim in waiting whose liberty is directly tied to the extent each is willing create an environment in which his or her rights are respected. If we stand together and draw from the best of our traditions we shall create a nation that is worthy of its people where the government is never an instrument of repression and every citizen can pursue their dreams unencumbered by an overbearing state."
"We ask all our citizens to be an integral part of the change they seek by getting involved in whatever capacity suits them. Change is always a difficult task and along the way it is easy to become despondent, fearful, tired, angry, and sometimes be tempted to throw in the towel. But because the cause we have embarked upon is a just one that must be pursued, we must all strive harder to achieve these important goals. We however, can do it only if we come together as one and face the opponent. This cause is bigger than any individual or group of individuals."
PDOIS NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS;
Compatriots, 2011 is not an ordinary year. It is a year of contemplation, stock taking and decision making. Awareness is the key to sound decision making. The APRC is transforming the year to one of patronage and fanfare. PDOIS will transform it into a year of information sharing and awareness raising so that patronage and fanfare will not stifle the sovereign will of the Gambian people to become the architects of their own destiny.
We, the PDOIS leadership, wish to draw the attention of the leaders of all the political parties in The Gambia in particular and all civic leaders in general to our irrevocable duty to ensure that we build a Gambia where all may live in prosperity, freedom and peace each day. It is our candid view that wherever there is prosperity and liberty there will be unity, peace and happiness.
Political parties have the duty to enact the instruments, build the institutions and formulate the policies that should bring about the prosperity; freedom and peace that the people need and aspire to, once they are given the mandate to lead. They must make preparation to meet those needs and aspirations while waiting as opposition forces to be given the opportunity to lead. This signifies the essence of a functioning multiparty system.
We therefore hope that the leadership of all political parties in the country shall bear in mind that leadership is not an entitlement or a right ascribed to be monopolised by any particular individual, family, ethnic group or other lineages; on the contrary, it is a duty to be entrusted by the people, irrespective of their individual characteristics, to persons of their choice regardless of their origin. This duty to lead should be performed to promote the welfare of all, without fear or favour, affection or ill will.
Today no Gambian leader could be considered genuine unless he or she accepts in both word and deed, that power belongs to the people and that he or she is their mere servant.
Hence any national who wants to lead without deriving legitimacy from the consent of the Gambian people, through periodic free and fair elections is not fit to lead a Republic in the twenty first century. In the same vein, any one who harbours personal ill-will or hatred for any other national is not fit to preside over the fate of a Republic. A genuine leader of the Republic must have a heart and mind which speak the language of truth and justice. Such a leader must be ready to perpetrate injustice to none and do justice to all without fear or favour, affection or ill-will.
2. ALSO WE SHOULD RECOGNISE ALL OPPONENTS OF JAMMEH/APRC; ESPECIALLY LAWYER MAI FATTY AND G.M.C AS A REGISTERED POLITICAL PARTY, FIGHTING SAME CAUSE TO SALVAGE THE COUNTRY BUT LEFT OUT FROM YOUR LIST DALTON 1
3. HOPE THE I.E.C LINK OF Registered Parties WILL HELP ON CONTACTS OF THOSE IN THE ARENA AND ONES WE WANT TO MOBILISED UNDER ONE UMBRELLA, AS UNITED FRONT AND FOR CONSENSUS CANDIDATE
RELATED;
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2. PDOIS ON THE UNITED FRONT
3. Henry Gomez calls on Darboe, Halifa and Hamat
4. Special Election 2011: Chaff from the Grain?
5. Will Gambia take after Senegal's steps ?
WE (ALL OPPONENTS) ARE IN THIS NATIONAL CAUSE TOGETHER! |
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Posted - 02 Sep 2011 : 14:24:28
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN!
ALL IT TAKES FOR ALL OPPONENTS IS COURAGE AND SINCERE TO COMMIT TO A NATIONAL CAUSE (NON-PARTISAN/PREJUDICE/DISCRIMINATION), TRUST FELLOW COMPATRIOTS, PARTNERSHIP, SOLIDARITY, TEAMWORK, COMRADESHIP AND ESPRIT DE CORPS TOWARDS A UNITED FRONT FOR A COMMON GOAL; AND MOBILISED UNDER A UNIFYING LEADER THROUGH ONE UMBRELLA
THIS GOAL OF EFFECTIVE OPPOSITION AGAINST JAMMEH/APRC AND THE NEED FOR A UNITED FRONT, NATIONAL INTERESTS OVERRIDES ALL INDIVIDUAL(S), GROUP & PARTY INTERESTS! SO WE ARE EXPECTING A GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY; IF THERE IS VICTORY UNDER A UNITED FRONT |
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Posted - 02 Sep 2011 : 19:10:58
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THE POINT NEWS Opposition Leaders meet to discuss united front
 Picture: Henry Gomez, Hamat Bah, Ousainou Darboe and Halifa Sallah
"Friday, September 02, 2011
Leaders of various opposition parties in the country Saturday met in an undisclosed location in the Kanifing Municipality to discuss, among others, the possibility of forming an opposition alliance in the best interest of Gambians, sources at the meeting have disclosed.
Our source, who does not want to be named, said the meeting, which has come barely three months before the presidential elections scheduled for 24th November, was “born out of the persistent calls from Gambians for the opposition parties to come together ahead of the polls”.
“Yes, you are right that the opposition parties have met at a venue in Kanifing to discuss the possibility of an opposition alliance, but I can’t tell what the actual outcome of the meeting was,” our source said.
According to the source, Saturday’s meeting which brought together key political party leaders, was the first and will be followed by similar meetings at least two to three more times.
Our source also told this paper that there were series of consultations among women leaders of various opposition political parties.
“Consultations are ongoing, and the womenfolk of all political parties are also embarking on the campaign for the united front after they all agreed that there is a dire need for an alliance,” the source added.
The November presidential election, which will see incumbent President Yahya Jammeh seeking a fourth term of office, will bring together what analysts say is a fragmented opposition, whose members have no option but to unite in order to pose a threat to Jammeh’s ruling APRC.
A total number of 837, 029 (Eight Hundred and Thirty Seven Thousand, Twenty Nine) people have registered to vote in the November polls, showing a massive increase since the last elections’ figures, which was 670,336 registered voters.
President Jammeh, 46, has won three consecutive past elections. In 1996, he polled 220,011 (55.7%); in 2001 he polled 242,302 votes (52.96%); and, in 2006, he swept the polls winning 67.33% of the total votes cast.
He has vowed not to engage in any election campaigning, and promised that the elections would be free and fair.
“Gambians are very grateful people, and they are development-oriented. We are going to teach the opposition a lesson – for all the oppositions in Africa that oppose progressive development-oriented governments.
“This will be the final forty days charity for opposition in this country. I have been swearing and, of course, there will be areas that do not want development – they can vote for the opposition – that’s their problem,” Jammeh said recently when the first family got registered as voters at State House.
Also in a recent interview with this paper, Ousainou Darboe, leader of the opposition United Democratic Party, said he would not rule out the possibility of an opposition alliance ahead of the forthcoming elections.
“I did not hold it against any party leader for expressing his intention to contest the election under his party ticket, because I believe that they all formed parties in order to contest elections,” Darboe told this paper.
The UDP leader, however, said there exists the possibility of an opposition alliance.
Hamat NK Bah, leader of the opposition National Reconciliation Party (NRP) holds a different viewpoint with regard to forming an opposition alliance.
“I will be a candidate in the 2011 Presidential election, and will not be in any opposition alliance with anybody, where I will be led into an election; instead I will lead my party into the 2011 election. I will be a Presidential candidate and my name will be on the ballot box come the 2011 election,” Bah said in a recent interview with this paper.
He added: “I’m not interested in any opposition alliance, because I have invested so much effort 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,” the NRP leader added.
For Henry Gomez, leader of the opposition Gambia Party for Democracy and Development (GPDP), he has no problem with forming an opposition alliance, but only if veteran leaders give chance to new and emerging opposition leaders.
In his view, leaders like Ousainou Darboe, Halifa Sallah and Hamat Bah should give chance to young and emerging opposition leaders because, as he put it, they had their chance before.
He told The Point newspaper in a recent interview that it is only new opposition leaders that can succeed in challenging the ruling APRC, come the November presidential polls.
Halifa Sallah, Secretary General of the opposition Peoples Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), also told this paper in an interview that even a month in politics could shape the whole destiny of a people, if the right decisions and actions are taken.
“The subject of establishing a united front is not a new idea. We started our campaign for a united front three years ago. There is no doubt that many people support the holding of a cross-party primary which is the surest way of guaranteeing cross-party voting for a candidate,” he said.
According to Sallah, the reason they subscribe to a united front is because of their realisation that the results of the 2006 elections reveal that voter apathy has gripped the Gambian electorate.
“In short, over 270,000 people saw the APRC, UDP and NADD, but did not vote at all. Hence those who did not vote at all are in the majority, and could have made any one to be President of the Gambia. These people did not vote for the major ruling party or the major or minor opposition parties,” he said.
This, he added, was why PDOIS said that they should put the parties and personalities aside, and proceed to mobilise those people so that they would move away from their political apathy and take an interest in voting.
Author: Sainey M.K. Marenah" |
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Posted - 03 Sep 2011 : 18:21:13
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RELATED COURTESY OF GAMBIA ECHO - UK Letter Writer Cautions Gambia's Fragmented Opposition Parties (CULLED FROM GAMBIA-L);
"" Open Letter to Opposition Leaders Reportedly Engaged in Exploratory Unity Talks-
Adrift in the political waters: the crushing humiliation awaiting a fragmented opposition on November 24"
“The lesson is clear, we cannot fight in isolation” Dr Fox, The Gambia Echo
In just over two months, The Gambian elects a Chief Executive for a fresh five year term. If the country’s opposition leaders continue their current conduct in refusing even to engage each other in purposeful talks, much less agree the architecture of a united front against an all-powerful incumbent, the person who assumes the mantle of President will not be Ousainu Darboe, leader of the UDP. He will neither be Hamat Bah of the opposition NRP, nor Halifa Sallah of PDOIS.
A fragmented opposition on November 24 can deliver only one outcome, and that verdict will not be what a suffocating nation yearns for. If only to restate what, to a person, observers at home and abroad accurately surmised, there is no question a fragmented opposition will comprehensively collapse in any, and all efforts, to electorally consign APRC to the archives of Gambian politics. Such an outcome cannot, under any plausible reasoning, be assignable to the electoral appeal of His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Doctor Yahya A J J Jammeh, Nasiru Deen (the Professor), but to the decidedly one-sided nature of Gambian public life, with the state, and its entire coercive arsenal, controversially concentrated in one person.
Indeed, the current crop of bona fide opposition leaders expressly preamblised in the Memorandum of Understanding of the defunct NADD that “no single opposition party can put an end to self perpetuating rule given the culture of patronage, intimidation and inducement that has already taken root in the political life of the country”. Clearly this prognosis is as relevant today as it was in 2005. In light of this admission, it is extraordinary that 2011 is shaping to be a possible four-way contest for the presidency of the Republic of The Gambia. Without question, an opposition vote split three ways, will go down in humiliating defeat to the APRC. And it cannot be overemphasised that in an unrelenting dictatorship, the presidential contest offers absolutely no consolation prize!
A political environment anchored in lawlessness and self perpetuation, with their full panoply of attendant perversions of democratic accountability, cannot but further corrode the fabric of our public life. And a state of affairs where a sizeable segment of the population accepts governmental heavy-handedness as normal, and the majority lives in fear, cannot, in any way, be a harbinger of pleasant tidings for Gambian polity. In light of our quite precarious existence, it is astounding that opposition Gambia - having explicitly recognised that alone as entities, none can compete with that juggernaut of the Gambian state, aka the Professor, and his ruling APRC - are still bent on a fragmented presidential contest in a mere three months.
Our country resides at somewhat of a permanent crossroads since 1994, but an explosion in civic awareness meant a decision must now be made to vacate that location and continue the national political journey. Will the decision to leave the fork in the road be made by Professor in a trademark unilateralism that cements his notion of himself as embodiment of nationhood and national security, and of all that is good for Gambian republicanism. Or will the decision be made collaboratively in genuine national conversations in the scant months, weeks, and days, to November 24?.
For now, that decision lies mainly with the Professor as sole custodian of our national police power. After November 24, the journey must continue, and depending on the reality, or perception, surrounding the outcome of the presidential poll, in a potentially more chaotic, free for all manner. Travelling the latter route will almost certainly end in regrettable tragedy for The Gambia, not necessarily in the immediate aftermath of the polls, but somewhere along the inevitably arduous stretch to 2016.
Notwithstanding the potential disaster of cohesive collapse heralded by the storm clouds over our national space, a fully united opposition front against the Professor on November 24 can avoid the tragedy of unrest inherent in limitless executive power. Regardless of the ultimate outcome under a united front, the opposition performance could be compelling enough to materially enlarge the democratic space by eliminating the extreme manifestations of arbitrary executive conduct from Gambian public space.
Even accepting that Diaspora Gambia’s views on the slow pace of opposition unity talks for the presidential contest may irritate some party leaders, I reject the contention that the decision on whether to unite or not remains their exclusive prerogative. As stakeholders, the opposition’s supporters are entitled to a say on how the November elections ought to be contested, and our verdict is a near unanimous call for unity. It is my view that, as the victims of tyranny, and the intended beneficiaries of dislodging APRC from our councils of state, any project in this regard is our enterprise. Clearly crucial to providing direction and momentum to the ultimate success of that enterprise, the party leaders are nevertheless mere trustees of a vital national project. As fiduciaries, their duty is to the people they intend to liberate from the clutches of tyranny. Their duty is to us, and we accordingly have standing to challenge their vision on the way forward. I urge Gambians to do precisely that in this crucial period for unification negotiations!
Notwithstanding the public pronouncements of opposition leaders provisionally committing to a united front, they may still be of the view that referring to 2011 as a make or break year mischaracterises the magnitude of our national condition. Even to the casual observer, the overwhelming evidence of the gathering storm over our national space must be obvious. The relentless atmosphere of repression is simply not sustainable, and something has clearly got to give. On the grounds that no Gambian deserves to suffer in a civil conflict over the absence of genuinely inclusive and participatory democracy, I still contend for the proposition that the electoral process must be the principal route and a united front the main vehicle for ushering in change. Against a fragmented opposition, however, it is delusional to even suggest the electoral vulnerability of APRC under our first-past-the-post system. In the best of current political circumstances, no single party can come close to effectively challenging the APRC electoral machine.
And so they are not amiss in anchoring their hopes and policies firmly in reality, national leaders who toy with any form of parochialism are better advised to accept that Gambia’s communities are eternally damned to a common fate, whatever that may be. We are condemned to survive or collapse as a national community, not as communities within a nation. Sink or swim, we must experience our plight as a collective. That fate is absolute and allows for no variation whatsoever!
Never in doubt about the agonising challenge of fashioning a workable united front, I am nevertheless of the firm view that those who aspire to the rarefied task of directing the destiny of a nation must be mature and pragmatic enough to appreciate and navigate the bottlenecks inherent to a project of such critical import. We are alive to the reality that a deal for a united front is bound to present special problems of intense agony. However, trapped as we are in a totalitarian system without independently viable institutions, the challenge for our opposition leaders is akin to that of America's founding fathers, those architects of statehood who carved the world's most distinguished political jurisdiction out of extremely acute conditions. Their enduring legacy is not the phenomenal and extraordinary material prosperity of the United States, but the creation of a nation of laws, and a land, even if at incremental paces, of liberty.
There is no defensible rationale to suggest that Gambians are incapable of instituting a governmental system based on the rule of law. The notion, in some quarters, that God installed the Professor and that we are therefore divinely required to accord him unquestioned obeisance until the naturally ordained time for his departure, must be rejected as manifestly stupid. Every people have control over their destiny, and as God does not install despots, He leaves them in place for as long as they remain unchallenged. By our apathy we allowed despotism to thrive wonderfully. As a people we chose failure in permitting the Professor to exercise a fierce stranglehold over our public life. It is therefore not contentious to argue that we have a right to redemption through a united opposition front for 2011. I have no hesitation in commending our opposition leaders for the very idea of united front exploratory talks on this third day of September 2011, but the Gambian populace will reserve its accolades for the final ratification of an enterprise whose true significance, in the fullness of time, will rank for us as among the seminal political achievements and events of human history. A wrong turn and our accelerating demise into a failed state will be confirmed beyond question. The relentless repression of the Professor’s APRC regime threatens a national break up and opposition leaders must never share in that responsibility by scuppering the only peaceable strategy to rid The Gambia of persistent repression.
In light of the intricate challenges threatening our nation's very survival, the current crop of opposition leaders have a special rendezvous with destiny. I implore them to follow the stars that will lead to a new dawn for The Gambia. I hope they follow the path of courage and determination and Gambia shall forever be grateful. A nation's hopes for peaceful change are solidly in their hands. How tragic if that sacred trust should be desecrated for want of political courage and vision!
Ala The Gambia Echo’s Dr Fox, the lesson is indeed clear that we cannot fight in isolation. What Ousainu, Hamat, Halifa, and their colleagues in lesser parties do may constitute part of their leadership prerogative, but opposition foot-soldiers are calling for nothing short of a genuine united front against Professor Jammeh in the November presidential contest.
I sincerely hope you can give us a united front!
Lamin J Darbo" |
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Posted - 08 Sep 2011 : 09:19:05
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1. THE POINT NEWS WITH APRC targets key opposition strongholds in LRR
2. The Opposition Have Lost Credibility & Recent Opposition Meeting On A United Front - Lamin Waa Juwara Mbarodi
3. DAILY OBSERVER NEWS New APRC women mobiliser speaks
4. DAILY NEWS WITH Last Chance for the Opposition
"Wednesday, September 07, 2011
As we approach the November presidential elections, there is some air of optimism within opposition circles to the possibilities of some strategic alliance amongst the only two active political parties in the country; the UDP and PDOIS, both for the presidential elections, and even possibly for the National Assembly elections in 2012.
Virtually all political analysts have agreed that instead of President Jammeh winning the last presidential elections with a ‘landslide victory’; it was the opposition that lost the elections, apparently because of their failure to sustain the momentum and enthusiasm that greeted the founding of NADD in January 2006.
Whether it was the greed for power or the arrogance and over-rated impression then harboured by Ousainou Darboe and Hamat Bah about their popularity, their unceremonious desertion of NADD just before the 2006 elections was no doubt responsible for the calamity that befell the opposition in the elections and even beyond.
It is quite obvious to anyone who cares for the truth that the more than 40 per cent of the electorate who did not come out to vote in the last presidential elections did so as a protest at the failure of the opposition to remain united against the APRC.
There is absolutely no doubt that if NADD had remained in tact, a majority of those people would have voted for the opposition, and Yahya Jammeh would have been beaten hands down by the NADD candidate.
As a result therefore, any reasonable person would have expected the opposition leadership to have learnt some useful lessons from that calamity and did something in order to make amends in the subsequent elections, but we instead continued to see a wider gulf developing between them, with the different opposition parties drifting further and further apart, thus giving President Jammeh and his APRC more breathing space.
However, despite the recent sabre rattling amongst the opposition parties for some form of alliance and the need to put up a single presidential candidate against President Jammeh, there is yet not enough evidence that such optimism could be realised before the November polls considering the wide ideological gulf that still seems to exist between the UDP and PDOIS, the only remaining active players on the stage.
However, if for whatever reason the opposition allows such a momentum to dissipate once again without any strategic alliance, then, the already frustrated Gambian electorates are likely to ditch them forever. The result would be yet deep voter apathy and another ‘landslide’ victory for President Jammeh and his APRC, while the opposition will continue to slide more and more into oblivion and irrelevance.
However, while under the prevailing circumstances, with the regime’s iron-grip control of both the IEC and the public media, it is very unlikely that an opposition candidate would defeat President Jammeh in the presidential elections, even if they form a strategic alliance; but if they can fight to control the National Assembly, then they can make life hard for the APRC regime.
They can then be in a position to transform that important institution from its present rubber stamp status, virtually representing President Jammeh, to something which represents and serves the people of this country. It would also be an opportunity to reform the electoral system to ensure a fairer and much more level playing field for everyone.
Indeed, any politician worth his or her salt would know that the legislature is as important as the Presidency, or even more important than the presidency. Therefore, if the opposition were to control the National Assembly, then they would have won half of their battle against the APRC hegemony.
Indeed, they can also embark on repairing some of the damage done to the Constitution and make it more relevant to the wishes and aspirations of a majority of Gambians. We have for instance seen what recently happened in the United States when the Republicans wrested control of congress from the Democrats, thus making life hard for President Obama by continuously voting against his proposals.
It is a well known fact that at the moment, President Jammeh has neither respect for the opposition, nor does he have any regard for the National Assembly as he sees it as a mere rubber stamp legislature that would do anything he wants them to do.
However, if the opposition were to take control of it, he will not only be compelled to recognise the legislature’s power and importance, but he would also be forced to respect the opposition because without their cooperation, he will find life at State House quite unpleasant.
However, the opposition can only achieve that if they came together in a strategic alliance, otherwise, they will once again risk losing both the presidency and the National Assembly, and of course the goodwill and confidence of the Gambian public.
Therefore, the people of this country are watching the situation and if the opposition again decide to squander their chances by engaging in yet another personal power struggle, like they did during the last elections, then they would lose any shred of respect that they are still left with.
ENDS
Author: D.A. Jawo"
5. MAAFANTA.COM Gambian "CHEETAHS" wanted - Princess Jainaba, Houston - UDP VS PDOIS VS NADD VS STGDP!..... LORD WHAT IS GOING ON AT GAMBIAPOST/GAMBIA-L.."Is This What You Call Democracy?"
6. REFER MORE ON NOTE 5. ABOVE FROM GAMBIA-L
"“The image of this country is more important that any political leader’s ambition. If you decide to contest, you must understand that you must win or lose, but if you lose, you accept it. This is what is going to happen; they (the opposition) are going to lose. I know the terrain,” he said." Lamin Waa Juwara |
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Posted - 12 Sep 2011 : 05:06:13
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RELATED;
1. Are the Americans Spot on Gambian Politicians?
2. Let’s face the reality
QUOTES OF THE DAY FOR ALL OPPONENTS!;
1. "Our politicians must cease to play to the gallery by exploiting the predicament of our people."Point Newspaper
2. "Until the political opposition unites to bring about most desired changes in our beloved homeland,........ Until then "Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die"." Gambia-L
3. "Be the change you want to see in the World" Gainako HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY! |
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Posted - 18 Sep 2011 : 16:43:23
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1. FREEDOM NEWS Breaking News: Gambia: NO FLAG BEARER YET ON SATURDAY’S OPPOSITION TALKS! NRP OPTS OUT FROM UDP PROPOSED ALLIANCE!!!!
Gambian opposition supporters both home, and abroad yearning for an opposition alliance in the November elections, must be very disappointed with the outcome of Saturday’s final meeting, as party leaders could not agree on one candidate to contest against incumbent President Yahya Jammeh, the Freedom Newspaper can authoritatively report. National Reconciliation Party Leader Hamat Bah, and his delegation remain adamant on their stance to lead the proposed merger, while the main opposition UDP under the leadership of Ousainanou Darboe, is still pressing for a UDP led alliance. A stalemate erupted—leading to the NRP making its position categorically clear that it would not throw its support behind the UDP.
The party wants to be availed with the opportunity to lead this time around, but the UDP on the other hand is not keen at allowing minority parties to lead the alliance. It kept on trying to persuade Hamat Bah, and his party, including other opposition parties to reconsider their decision, and give chance to the UDP to lead the proposed merger. But Hamat Bah said his party is still determined to contest the coming polls as a flag bearer—signaling no changes on his position not to join a UDP lead alliance.
The NRP said its decision was largely motivated by its local, and international supporters, who are pressing for an NRP led alliance. The party said it would not go against the wishes of its supporters—who are mandated to define the destiny of the party. “It’s not about Hamat Bah, but the party supporters right to shape the affairs of the party. The UDP should respect the views of NRP supporters. They want Hamat to contest as a President,” said our source.
The PDOIS representative at the meeting Halifa Sallah, is also pressing for primaries to select the prospective candidate for President for Gambia’s divided opposition. The PDOIS’S position remains unchanged, said our source.
Opposition leader Hendry Gomez did not attend Saturday’s meeting. Mr. Gomez was represented by a representative of his party. His party is of the view that a new candidate outside the UDP party should led the proposed alliance.
Mai Fatty, of the opposition Gambia Moral Party was represented by his brother at the meeting, a source said. Mr. Fatty, is currently residing in Norway.
The PPP’S Omar Amadou Jallow, (OJ) was also absent during the meeting. He is said to be in the United States on a visit. Mr. Jallow, was represented by a PPP official on Saturday’s meeting.
The meeting ended without a flag bearer. The UDP had appealed to Hamat Bah to talk to his supporters so that the much anticipated merger would be realized. Bah, in response maintains that his party’s position remains unchanged. He wants to lead the proposed merger.
The elections are scheduled for November 24th, and yet the opposition is playing games. It appears that both Hamat Bah, and Ousainanou Darboe are going to run for the Presidency.
When contacted for comments, Hamat Bah said he doesn’t want to comment on the outcome of the Saturday’s meeting, but was hasten to add that the NRP’s position remains unchanged. Mr. Bah said his party supporters wanted him to lead, and nothing can change their position. He rules out NRP joining a UDP led alliance. Freedom News
2. RELATED FREEDOM ON LAWYER OUSAINOU AGAIN? |
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