Samba, thanks for your post.  This is welcomed news and I hope for all to support the opposition in their efforts to making a tactical alliance a reality.  Our strength lies in our unity to defeat the corrupt and murderous thugs that have no vision past their forehead.  Let's do them a favor and relieve them from their confusion and misery.  Our biggest weapon against the thugs is to force them to think.  They only shine when we allow them to function as starch heads.  I'm glad they used words/phrases they did not understand, such as transparency, accountability, good governance, democratic principles, etc,.  Now they wished they'd never used those words/phrases to perform their slapstick.  Let's forge ahead, for the end is near for them. 

Chi Jaama

Joe Sambou



>From: Samba Linguere <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: PDOIS For Tactical Alliance In Next Election - Halifa Sallah
>Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:55:20 -0000
>
>Culled From The POINT Newspaper
>
>PDOIS For Tactical Alliance In Next Election - Halifa Sallah
>
>Mr. Halifa Sallah, one of PDOIS strong men, has disclosed that his
>party
>recognised the possibility of tactical allianc with other Opposition
>parties
>during the first round of the coming Presidential election. This, he
>said,
>was part of resolutions made during their recently concluded congres
>in
>Wuli. Mr. Sallah was speaking in an interview with this reporter on
>Tuesday
>at the PDOIS Bureau in Churchill's Town. On the issue of coalition,
>he said
>their Congress saw it as a democratic instrument that do come about
>during
>the second round of voting when no candidate gets a landslide
>victory in the
>first round.
>
>"The Congress resolved that PDOIS presidential candidate will be
>willing to
>agree on a governance agenda where the presidency will be assumed
>just for a
>year with the mandate to remove from the constitution all
>retrogressive
>provisions and re-enact progressive provisions," he noted. Adding
>that once
>that is done, people will be called for another presidential
>election to
>allow political parties present their programmes to the electorate.
>Mr.
>Sallah went on to describe the congress as a decisive one that
>enabled their
>party to review its policies, strategies and tactics. Among other
>major
>resolutions reached, he said, were: that there should be no
>tolerance for
>any form of sectionalism based on language, religion or any other
>groupings.
>
>Similarly, he continued, they would not entertain any sort of
>personality
>cult among their ranks. But, rather, he stated truth would be their
>symbolic
>leader while their members would be party workers of different
>categories.
>The PDOIS, he noted, also looked at the governance programme of the
>country
>and realised that the APRC Government had abrogated all its
>commitment to
>democratic governance and was bent on amending the Constitution to
>disempower the people. Such amendments, he pointed out, were aimed
>at
>promulgating indemnity and other retrogressive acts against the
>interest of
>the majority of the people.
>
>He said they resolved to campaign for a "No Vote" against the
>amendments any
>time it is put to Gambians in a referendum. "We resolved to open up
>to a
>tactical alliance on the basis of a sound governance agenda which
>will
>prevent any new leader from presiding over the ignorance subjugation
>and
>poverty of the Gambian people," Mr. Sallah emphasised. On the
>economy, he
>noted, that a PDOIS Government would pursue policies that would
>bring
>self-sufficiency in food. Presently, he said 42% of the country's
>imports go
>on food, amounting to over D1000m.
>
>He cited the Bangulinding Women Garden which, he said, would be
>extended to
>all parts of the country. The Congress, he added also recognised
>that 57% of
>the labour force of the country depend on agriculture. As such, he
>stressed,
>a PDOIS Government would give top priority to the sector. He said
>they also
>studied the issues affecting
>Youths such as unemployment and factors hinder the advancement and
>empowerment of women. He called on the youths to be aware so that
>they would
>not be used as tools by any selfish politician.
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