Sanusi,
You are right! 

These people are already frightened of the coalition and I am sure this would not be the last time they will try to ridicule the coalition. The Gambia is neither Kenya nor Senegal and the efforts by the opposition leaders are so far going fine in building the coalition. 

Despite the fact that APRC has the Daily Observer and the state media, the opposition leaders should not allow divide and rule method to succeed.

Momodou Camara


Sanusi Owens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Mr Njie
> 
> Please avoid reading DAILY OBSERVER's editorial on the
> COALITION. This is not the first and it won't be the last.
> The Daily Observer is currently conspiring with the APRC
> spin doctors to riddicule the Gambia's Coalition. As a
> result, they have been making some very negative comments
> about the Coalition Government in Kenya. Please make
> thorough search at the Daily Observer's editorial and you
> will realise that this is not first time we reading such
> crap.
> 
> Come 2006, Gambia will be Free. as Yahya must go
> 
> Sanusi
> 
> 
> Abdoul Njie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> After reading this article, I cannot help but ask who you
> think should lead
> the coalition in the Gambia in 2006.
> 
> Ablie Njie-Lekbi
> Atlanta
> 
> ============================================================
> =A COALITION,
> then a COLLISION
> Coalition governments do not work in Africa and impede the
> democratic
> progress of the continent by causing uncertainty in the
> political life of
> countries where they are found. From East Africa to West
> Africa coalition
> governments are fumbling or have foundered putting the
> future of their
> countries in jeorpady.
> 
> The situation in Kenya is particularly instructive. The
> Kibaki-led
> coalition, called by the funny appellation NARC, is in
> tatters, causing
> general despondency in the country. The main partner, the
> Liberal Democratic
> Party, led by the very popular and charismatic Raila Odinga,
> now has one
> foot in and another one out of the government because it is
> dissatisfied by
> the way Kibaki is implementing the pre-2002 election
> Memorandum of
> Understanding, which allegedly spelt out how power was to be
> shared among
> the coalition partners.
> 
> Now investors and donors are getting anxious about their
> relations with
> Kenya due to the instability in the ruling coalition. Kibaki
> has lost faith
> in his coalition partners; he has invited the same
> politicians of the ex-
> ruling party, KANU, into his cabinet. Kenyans are asking
> what has changed
> since December 2002. The corrupt politicians they so happily
> booted out of
> office are now back in ministerial positions, only 19 months
> after losing
> power.To be fair, without NARC, KANU would still be in power
> to the
> detriment of Kenyans.
> 
> In Senegal, the coalition that kicked out Abdou Diouf from
> power in 2000 has
> since unravelled; leaving the political scene highly
> acrimonious and
> charged. In four years, President Wade has had four prime
> ministers,an apt
> indication of the instability brought into government by the
> ill-conceived
> coalition. Diouf’s ministers such as Seringe Diop are back
> in power in
> Wade’s cabinet.
> These and other examples show that coalitions in Africa are
> first and
> foremost political marriages of convenience, devoid of any
> clear-cut
> political programmes beyond winning power. In fact, what
> goes for
> ‘coalitions’ are nothing more than agglomerations of
> interest groups bound
> by nothing but the desire to win power. They do not seem to
> have a vision
> beyond getting into power.
> 
> This is highly unfair to African voters and inimical to the
> development of
> democracy and economic growth on the continent. Africa needs
> stable,
> functioning and effective governments that will be able to
> win investor
> confidence and donor support, and, above all, win the trust
> and confidence
> of the hoi polloi.
> 
> Coalitions built on the premise of regime change only will
> not solve
> problems, they only compound them further.
> 
> © Copyright 2003 by Observer Company
> 

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