KB,
During the presidential campaign,OJ did say that they sponsored UDP in the
1996 elections.We all know the PPP was banned at the time but they
existed.In your opinion,what do yoy think OJ meant when he said they
sponsored UDP in 1996.
Thanks
Beran
>From: Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: So Has Jammeh Really Changed?
>Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:34:00 -0500
>
>Saiks, another load of rubbish. I will leave Ngorr to talk to you about
>Moja-G, but will address your mumbo jumbo vis-ŕ-vis the elections that just
>happened and your ridiculous and spiteful stance against the UDP-led
>Alliance. You can protest all you want that you did not mean to support
>the
>APRC in their election bid, but that is exactly what you did and you know
>it. Show us how many mails you sent to G_L during the election campaign
>attacking APRC instead of the UDP-led Alliance. You ought to be ashamed of
>yourself. You cannot even get your priorities right when faced with a
>choice
>between child murderers and UDP.
>
>I thought when I spoke to Gassama about the allegations that PPP sponsored
>the UDP, people like you will get. Wrong again. I over-estimated you. When
>it suits you, you distinguish between PPP, the Party and the people that
>make up the Party. In other instances, you get lost in your own web of
>semantics. You wrote: “The question was never Jawara as an invidual [sic],
>but the PPP as a political party.” Then you wrote: “It was OJ who told the
>Gambian people that it was the PPP that sponsored the first election
>campaign of the UDP.”
>
>In 1996, PPP only existed in your imagination. When you hear statements
>attributed to OJ, you should use your brain to decipher whether it makes
>sense what they said he said. If there was no PPP in 1996, is what we are
>talking about not former PPP stalwarts? Let me break it down for you
>further. In 1996 PPP was BANNED. DEAD. Some of their supporters went to
>support UDP just like some former NCP supporters went to support UDP and
>some former PPP supporters went to support APRC. Now, you are telling us
>that because of that support you would rather have a child murderer lead us
>than vote for Ousainou Darboe? Give us a break. There is no intellectual
>integrity in your arguments.
>
>You have never brought any tangible proof to show that UDP wanted to bring
>back PPP to power. Matter of fact, it did not take long for nature to run
>its course and show the whole world what Party wanted to bring PPP to
>power.
>Of course it is APRC that is bringing us PPP. When I asked you people
>during
>the campaign why you were not criticizing APRC for the numerous PPP people
>in their fold, none of you got back to me. Well, the cat is now out.
>Ousainou Darboe never said he was going to forget about all the PPP ills
>and
>return people their assets. It is Yaya who is doing that. People they
>branded as corrupt are now hailed as heroes and being reappointed to their
>posts and having their assets returned to them. Who is returning the
>country
>to the PPP days?
>
>You engage in your sloppy semantics again when you say: “I don't believed
>that the issue in hand has to do with Jawara going to bed with the APRC but
>he returning back home after years of exile, if I have it right.” Utter
>rubbish. You are talking about one and the same thing, unless you want to
>tell me that you were born yesterday. If you think that Jawara is going to
>go home and do something detrimental to APRC, then I think I need not
>continue this discussion with you. Then I will know that I really misjudged
>you. I know you have it right and you know that too. What you have to deal
>with is the fact that if Jawara returns, you have to quit your nonsense
>about Jawara (PPP) and the UDP being in bed. You will have to focus your
>hatred for PPP on APRC because that would be the home of PPP without a
>shred
>of a doubt.
>
>You also know that it is not true that PDOIS had ‘similar problems’ with
>PPP
>as UDP is currently facing with the APRC/IEC. Either you do not understand
>UDP’s arguments or you are deliberately twisting facts. Besides, you are
>comparing apples and oranges. What you need to compare is how both UDP and
>PDOIS dealt with problems they had with APRC/IEC. You do not need to go
>back
>to the PPP days. Few months ago PDOIS boycotted an election in the country.
>Are you aware of why they refused to partake in that election? Why did you
>ignore that inconsistency and instead bring this smokescreen about PDOIS
>problems in the former regime? Did we have an Election Decree in 1992? How
>many Casamance people were caught in 1992 with Gambian documents? How many
>voters ‘moved’ from Serrekunda East (where OJ had a healthy majority) to go
>to Serrekunda West, where Gibou Jagne (NCP) was giving AA Njie (PPP) some
>problems? You do not know what you are talking about.
>
>I was hoping that you will bring up the ridiculous examples PDOIS gave
>about
>elections that were overturned in The Gambia. What you failed to mention in
>your piece was that these elections were NOT held during the AFPRC/APRC/IEC
>era. Need I tell you that we have a totally different judiciary now and
>totally different rules? Apples and oranges again. You should show us how
>many elections were overturned during the tenure of the AFPRC/APRC/IEC.
>That
>is what is relevant here. Not some ludicrous story about an election
>petition during a totally different era. To counteract those PDOIS examples
>I can also cite you the election petitions of Sam Sillah (PPP) against
>Dembo
>Bojang (NC) and also another brought by MC Cham (PPP) when he lost in 1992.
>Both Sillah’s and Cham’s petitions were rejected. Meaning, the court did
>not
>overturn those election results. Now, does that mean that if someone takes
>a
>petition to the court after the legislative elections the courts will
>reject
>them? This is preposterous. It is equally absurd to say that because some
>petitions succeeded in 1992 others will succeed in 2002. You ought to use
>your brain when you hear something from PDOIS. Don’t just swallow it and
>willingly regurgitate it here. PDOIS themselves challenged the registration
>of some people in Banjul in the early 1990s (during the mayoral elections)
>and the challenges failed. Going by their reasoning you cited in your
>piece,
>it is foolish to partake in these challenges. You follow my point?
>KB
>
>
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