Mr  Jallow

Please stop your dirty politics of DIVIDE and RULE.
This interview of Waa was made some many years  ago
(1999) and  has little relevanceunder the present
political climate in the Gambia . Whether you like it
or not, there is going to be a UNITED COALITION and
your Boss-YAHYA is going to lose.

Sanusi


 --- Ebou Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Q.
Yes, you accuse PDOIS, particularly Halifa
> Sallah, of collaborating
> with anti-democratic forces during the transition,
> what are the bases
> of your accusation?
>
>
> Lamin: These are questions that come to mind when
> you analyse the role
> that PDOIS played during the transition and
> continues to play. In the
> first instance, after the coup d’etat, they were
> offered ministerial
> positions by the junta which they declined to accept
> and the fact that
> during the transition, they were the only political
> party free to
> indulge in politics with the tacit endorsement of
> the junta, tantamount
> to aiding and abetting the coup. Political ban was
> not lifted when the
> Constitution was put to a referendum and they were
> the only people
> allowed to campaign. They distributed cassettes and
> travelled across
> the country canvassing for the Constitution, which
> most Gambians felt,
> were tailor-made to suit Yahya Jammeh. Our
> suspicions became confirmed
> when the three main political parties, both in
> government and
> opposition, where banned and they (PDOIS) were left
> out.
>
>
> Q. Accusations and counter-accusations have been
> traded between the UDP
> and APRC for long. Now, Halifa Sallah has challenged
> you and the UDP
> leadership to a public debate, I think for the
> second time, will you
> accept the challenge?
>
>
> Lamin: Certainly, we will take up the challenge if
> it is going to be
> over the radio and television.
>
>
> Q. Why are you insistent on broadcast over radio and
> television?
> Lamin: Because that will give it national coverage
> and Gambian people
> will judge for themselves the role they have played
> or failed to play
> during the transition. You see, PDOIS is a very
> small party. They only
> polled 2.8 percent of the votes during the last
> elections. Under the
> best of systems, any party those polls less than 5
> percent of the votes
> cast will not be allowed to register as a political
> party.
> From the look of things, PDOIS looks like a club
> lacking in mass
> following. If they can deny that their own
> sponsored-candidates in the
> last general elections were not members of their
> party, then they
> deserved to be called a club.
> They continue to deny that they are a vanguard party
> trying to operate
> within a mass party system and that they subscribe
> to a bankrupt
> ideology, which has been, discredited worldwide.
>
> Q. What is that ‘bankrupt ideology’?
>
>
> Lamin: Their own brand of socialism. That is why
> they have been
> rejected by the Gambian people time and time again.
> That level of
> frustration can be seen in the way Halifa Sallah ,
> whose bid for
> parliament for the third time has been unsuccessful
> despite the fact
> that he claims to be The Gambia’s foremost political
> intellectual
> (talks).
>
>
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