Sister Jabou Joh wrote:

"...so I shall leave off  trying to challenge people to higher ideals as it 
seems to be quite a stranger  in African politics and then we wonder why we 
are always left trying to reinvent  the wheel".

At some point in the future, all of us must have to confront all painful 
issues and questions that have so far been either only tentatively raised or 
simply ignored. In that process of historical forensics on the divisions 
inside NADD it should be of little moment what the electoral scorecards show 
come october 2006. NADD would simply be better of had it remained intact as 
a coalition of all the opposition.

The most unfortunate thing about the NADD splinter is not the probability of 
further disintegration. It rather is the bleak possibility of subsequent 
coalitions amongst progressives in Gambian politcal life for the foreseeable 
future. The precedent set by this failure is a terrible one. Any 
reconciliation can proceed only on the basis of some principled form of 
internal discourse; and that is almost impossible at this point in time.

Weeks ago, I asked a criptic question here. I wondered loudly if anyone 
could inform me about the identities of those compatriots whose ideas were 
authored into NADD's MOU. I simply suspected that the MOU itself was 
authored in order to "produce" the kind of impasse on the flagbearer 
question just as it did. As sensational as it might sound, that is still my 
point of departure. But as I said, all of that I will reserve for the 
future. In the mean time, I am sure we would do better by thinking out 
strategies that would help maximise the NADD vote, and I must say your input 
is of major importance in that endeavour.

Cheers,
momodou s sidibeh

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