President Jammeh: Leader Gambians trust            Written by Ebou Jallow          Tuesday, 14 February 2006 
   
      Former AFPRC Spokesman Possessed by their signature poor judgment on serious issues, the Nadd officials registered a faction of demagoguery, and made a covenant with their supporters based on a promise of ending all “self-perpetuating” political power in The Gambia.  
   
  Today, that general state of euphoria has turned into perpetual dubiety in the majority of Gambian minds. Nadd has shirked its responsibility to match their words with deeds. 
   
  Social trust is an attitude based on a reputation of tempered steel and a disposition of noble virtues. This becomes crucial in a multi-ethnic society such as the one existing in The Gambia. A lack of trust within any major political institution such as Nadd poses a serious threat to democracy, whereby candidates prevail in order to represent the various interests of the electorate.
  
   
  The electoral laws of The Gambia allowed Nadd two very simple options: either form a merger in principle and remain a coalition of parties or create a merger in law and thus codify your condition into a legal political party with all its consequences under the Constitution.  Nadd chose the latter with the full knowledge and consent of Ousainou Darboe.  
   
  However, in his latest “resignation speech” Mr Darboe claims that Nadd is operating like a political party which was never the original intention of the signatories to the MOU; and that there is too much distrust amongst the Nadd leaders. It is self-evident that Mr Darboe also appears to have just realised these facts at the last hour after his bid for the Nadd presidential candidacy was unanimously rejected by his own party. 
   
  And yet Mr Darboe is once again appealing to re-join the UDP which ceases to exist as a political party since its merger with Nadd.  
  
  The campaign season has just started in The Gambia and politicians like Ousainou Darboe are making all kinds of promises in soliciting votes.  There is definitely too much confusion within Nadd which signals an obvious uncertainty for the Gambian voter. 
   
  It takes moral courage and commitment to carry through a political vision that fulfils the wishes of the people.  Trust is a risky business that does not suffer a second chance with fools, con artists or the phony.  In politics, social trust is based on a belief that when a politician is delegated to represent the people he should be competent in serving their interests, and that he should be predictable.  
   
  Politicians demonstrate their trustworthiness by being predictably committed to a vision and not to various means as Darboe claims.  A thinker once said that “trust is the subjective probability by which an individual expects that another individual performs a given action on which his welfare depends.”  In his resignation speech,  Darboe mentioned everything under the sun except the welfare of the Gambian people.  He betrayed the values he once shared with Nadd and rightly exposed himself to the wrath and protests from the Nadd militants.  
   
  Ousainou Darboe has abandoned his UDP, abandoned Nadd and all the semblance of moderation that came with that institution.  Ousainou Darboe is now cashing on the hopes of his long lost love of his own ethnic supremacy, and of which he is an undisputed leading candidate.
  
  In a multi-ethnic society, any breach of trust such as Nadd’s calculated disintegration does undermine social trust and further polarize tribal groups in The Gambia.  However, Gambians can still find hope in the leadership of President Jammeh and the APRC.
   
  He has demonstrated courage in ridding The Gambia of a thirty year old autocracy, commitment to the APRC vision of progressive action and never shirked his duty in promoting the welfare of the Gambian people. President Jammeh has earned the people’s trust and in 2006 Gambians shall elect him again for five more years.
   
    Last Updated ( Tuesday, 14 February 2006 ) 


		
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