Nonsense rampling from a deluded pretender.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:10 AM, abdoukarim sanneh <
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>  *The anticlimactic end of the melodramatic political hysteria*
>
> *By Mathew K Jallow *
>
> The guessing game is over. And the National Reconciliation Party’s (NRP)
> firebrand,
> Hamat Bah, has emerged as the face of the splinter coalition, and
> frankly, it was not
> unexpected. But the conclusion of this ostentatious, if not dramatic
> chapter of political
> rivalry is unsettling in its cruel audaciousness. Yet it was all a storm
> in a tea pot, which in
> its evident superficiality, had the air and the aura of political deceit
> and manufactured
> grandiosity. The recently concluded corrosive and polarizing political
> drama injected
> venom into the political discourse and stirred up an ugly ideological
> mudslinging
> between supporters and opponents of the tripartite camp of renegade
> parties and the
> dominant United Democratic Party (UDP).
>
> In the end, narrow political expediency driven by the Peoples Democratic
> Organization for Independence and Socialism’s
> (PDOIS) ideological heterodoxy, and supported by the NRP’s
> uncharacteristic brilliant lack of objectivity and pragmatism,
> sank any prospects for an opposition coalition. In any way one looks at
> this historic political fiasco, it is evident that the
> mastermind, PDOIS, in its persistent inability to accept the public
> verdict that like the ill-fated primary, a convention of
> the kind originally envisioned by PDOIS’s pedantic, opportunistic and
> limelight seeking leader, Halifa Sallah, was for
> more reasons than one, unnecessary, time-consuming and costly.
>
> The so-called “national” convention of the trio of rebellious saboteurs,
> in the end, turned out to be the biggest political
> charade of the year. By choosing a course of action that is inimical to
> Gambia’s interest, with delegates plucked from
> Hamat Bah’s Saloum constituency, and the rest corralled from the Greater
> Banjul and Kombo areas, convention
> participants exhibited a provincial mindset that has broken faith with the
> Gambian people and betrayed a cause in which
> the rest of the country is heavily invested in; Yahya Jammeh’s removal.
> The convention itself seemed more like a beauty
> pageantry held for a small catchment area of the western part of the
> country. No broadly representative national
> convention can be effectuated without UDP leading the effort; a truism
> that is perceptibly obviated by the fact that only
> UDP has a truly broad organizational infrastructure, nationwide
> support-base and logistical capacity to mobilize
> Gambians around the divine cause of removing Yahya Jammeh. But the
> convention itself was baffling in more ways than
> one; specifically relating to PDOIS dual representation as a member of
> NADD as well as a standalone party on its own.
> Besides, the fact that Assan Martin’s representation qualified him as a
> “political party entity,” was a hoax aggravated by
> the despicable dishonesty and wholesale mockery of the political process.
>
> The questionable gimmicks deployed by the convention call into question
> the legitimacy of the entire convention process
> as a dubious exercise in crookedness and jingoistic political maneuvering.
> In its need to mirror a semblance of public
> support, the PDOIS led nihilistic rebellion against UDP leader Ousainou
> Darboe, resorted to artful ingenuity that inflated
> the number of convention participants and employed Houdini’s eye-popping
> trickery and hair-splitting logical gymnastics
> to justify and give legitimacy to the convention process. Beyond that,
> Halifa Sallah, the brain-child of the primary and
> convention ideas, has proven to inherit a notoriously unhealthy
> infatuation with the old Soviet Union socialist
> bureaucratic formalities, a condition which is borderline psychotic. And
> PDOIS’s stubborn dereliction of duty to its
> political constituency has hindered any progress towards the formation of
> a truly broad-based national coalition. The
> insistence on convening an unnecessary and time-consuming convention has
> made it difficult, if not impossible to arrive
> at a consensus agreement despite UDP’s innumerable concessions to
> accommodate the fears and concerns of other
> opposition members. Clearly, events of last week speak to the characters
> of politicians whose bluster has demonstrated
> a morbid inability to subordinate their egos to the greater good of
> society.
>
>
> It is hard to imagine that a political spat over a convention can trump
> the need to oust Yahya Jammeh from his celestial
> parchment, a concern that calls the coalition formation suspect, and
> questions the motives behind the their collective
> thinking. It is clear that both Hamat Bah and Halifa Sallah, the once
> political nemesis, have broken their covenant with
> the Gambian people for acting in ways that satisfies their egos, but
> Gambians will long remember their stained
> characters and lack of moral rectitude. But the NRP/PDOIS love affair will
> soon be tested, and the obvious mismatch will
> emerge as the novelty wears away under the pressures of a Bah/Sallah
> character conflicts. For one, Hamat Bah,
> despite his lackadaisical attitude and buffoonery, is fiercely
> independent-minded; a personality characteristic he
> jealously guards. Unlike the weak personalities of Sidia Jatta and Sam
> Sarr, who have allowed Halifa Sallah to walk all
> over them, he has a mind of his own and uses it. Hamat Bah will never
> degrade his pride to a point of becoming anyone’
> s pushover puppet, and if the pseudo-intellectual and so-called
> “Sociologist” Halifa Sallah, the biggest fraud in
> contemporary Gambian politics thinks he can use the stridently independent
> Hamat Bah as a doormat, a rude
> awakening awaits him. Halifa Sallah’s tyrannical predisposition is clearly
> exemplified in how he lords over PDOIS and
> Foroyaa, even chastising Sidia Jatta as “unauthorized to speak for PDOIS”
> sometime last year. Hamat Bah will not stand
> for any crap from Ayatolla Halifa Sallah, and any effort to micromanage
> him, will usher in a second round of
> melodramatic political hysteria. Take that to the bank.
>
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