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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 29 Oct 2009 : 18:40:31
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No Character Assassinations
Reading the local newspapers these days one cannot but help see that the opposition politicians are at each others throat. Such is an unhealthy situation and should stop and a way forward be put in place if any meaningful political activity is expected in the forthcoming general elections. The past should be a lesson for all of them to learn something worthwhile; and bury the differences; failure to do so nothing better will be expected from them. The politicians should tackle issues rather than tackling one another. They should avoid character assassination, as much as they can. It should be politics of issues rather politics of personalities, we hope the debate will change the tide to a more better and constructive debates as we get closer to the 2011 presidential and parliamentary elections.
In the discourse column of the daily news the opposition politicians are engaged in a debate over what went wrong during the last time they came together under the banner of the National Alliance for Democracy and Development (NADD). The debate is going well, the only BUT is how some of them are just putting blame on the other for the failure of the united oppositions. So far no one of them has admitted responsibility of any mistake, and in fact some are going too far in character assassination. What the readers expected from these opposition politicians is a way forward and to take lesions from the last general elections. If each of them is able to admit where one went wrong, then there can be a possibility of a come back to rebuild NADD.
However if the oppositions cannot handled what is described as Things Fall Apart , and other reasons that cause their fall apart in the last general elections , which some political observers described as leadership quest, then how ,much more problems can they solve at national levels? Every genuine opposition is a government in the waiting. We have seen opposition’s political parties in Senegal who became a ruling party; it has also happen in Ghana and many other places in the continent and the world at large, so why should the Gambia be an exception?
As the oppositions are at each others throat, the ruling APRC is getting more and more prepared. Yes it is natural that as the oppositions will do all they can to get to the seat of government, the ruling party also has to consolidate their hold on to power. It is up to the oppositions to come up with credible alternatives.
The oppositions have a big challenge, which is to manage burry the hatches and forged ahead with a united front. Failure of which is the possibility of going to the next general elections divided, and what that means is another lose. The key players in the filed of politics in the country have to proof to the people who are to be governed that they are capable of managing the affairs of the nation well, if their remains any doubt of such then the challenge becomes intensified.
The discourse column in the daily news will continue to widen the debate by talking more people who are stake holders in the issue, if necessary even beyond the boundaries of the Gambia. It’s our ultimate objective to give voice to all as far as this matter is concern. The debate continues with, more interviews.
Source: The Daily News
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A clear conscience fears no accusation - proverb from Sierra Leone |
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..........that might be an idea.
