Mr Kujabi, Incontestably and most unfortunately, such a vocabulary of prejudice and unsubstantiated political giddiness is illogicality and myopic-ity of the highest order in the science of governance in the 21st century. It certainly tantamount to a melancholic claptrap style of seeing the sun in broad day light and nonetheless shouting between the earth and the skies that it is the moon. Consequently, Mr Kujabi, you must have galore time under your command for such political simplicity... Abdoulie Jawo "Pa.Saikou Kujabi" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Halifa Sallah is back again working for Yaya Jammeh . Readers, it should not be a surprise for anyone who knows Halifa Sallah to see him going to work for Yaya Jammeh and the APRC regime one more time. I have always said it in many internet forums that Halifa Sallah is as arrogant, selfish,stained, deceptive as Yaya Jammeh. Frankly I was astonished to read Halifa Sallah's letter to NRP/UDP Alliance repeating himself over and over again without making any point. Most people would recall I have always challenged Halifa on this particular forum about his role in installing Yaya Jamme. He never responded to those facts that I presented until on or about May 20, 2006 when he attempted to justify NAAD's humilliating performance in the recent Kombo East by-elections. In that irresponsible and self deceiving statement, Halifa, just as typical of him, went on hiffing and hoffing again, contradicting himself and exposing his arrogance and insensitivity about the political wishes of the Gambian opposition electorates. Halifa claimed that the NAAD candidate was from Pirang Village, that NAAD was frequently seen in that by-election campaign than UDP and APRC parties,that NAAD suffered most from the APRC vote buying, that there was no basis for measuring of gaining or losing popularity in that election, and that there was someone in the United Sates who sent money to the people of Kafuta to discourage them from voting for NAAD, among many other deceptive claims. I did not have time to respond on time to these irresponsible statements aimed at keeping his NAAD sponsors in the United Staes and elsewhere. First and foremost, Halifa did not even know that the NAAD candidate (Lamin Touray) is not from Pirang, but Berending Village. Secondly, I truely wonder if there are sound minded supporters of NAAD? I would have expected some reasonable person to quickly ask Halifa why NAAD performed so badly in an election that his party was "more visible, more involved with the grass roots, and above all as Halifa claimed, "their candidate was more confortable explaining NAAD's programs than UDP". Third, as far as UDP is concerned, we did not have any evidence to suggest that APRC had engaged in vote buying. Halifa did not present any evidence including ther number of votes APRC bought from potential NAAD voters. I hope this article will lead us to having those facts presented on this forum. Fourth, Halifa fooled himself and of course those blind followers by arguing that the by-election was not the basis for measuring gaining or losing popularity. Halifa and his comrades in The Gambia, and of course SINK THE GAMBIA PROJECT(SAVE THE GAMBIA PROJECT)based in the United States have painted a false picture to the people in the diaspora that NAAD is the popular party in the Gambia, and that it has the backing of most if not all oppostion supporters. Unfortunately, Halifa and his comrades' persistent lies did not save them from the hummilliation NAAD suffered when the Kombo East by-election results were announced. If politics is not about measuring popularity I don't know what it is about. Fifth, Halifa's allegation that someone in the United States sent money to discourage Kafutarians from voting for NAAD is as baselss and irresponsible as his allegations have always been. As far as I know, there was no Kafutarian in the United States or elsewhere who had sent money directly to Kafuta to induce voters. I am from Kafuta and Halifa very well knows that. Therefore, I will never hesitate to set the records straight here. The votes that were counted for NAAD as in most all the polling stations were Lamin Touray votes and not NAAD as a party. Kafutarians in particular, were receiving mixed message before they got the facts. There were others who did not change their positions even after they came to know the truth that UDP had nothing to do with NAAD. The Lamin Touray campaingn introduced themselves in the name of UDP and in many of his supporters in Kafuta used my own namke to attract voters. I personally had high regards for Lamin Touray for many reasons, but most importantly as a citizen of The Gambia, and Kombo East District. You better be adviced that we in the Kombo East are closely related just as in all parts of The The Gambia. NAAD can only be remembered for being the only custodian of the SPOILER VOTES that effectively helped APRC narrowly carried seat in the Kombo East by-election. I would like assure Halifa that NAAD's two humdred votes in Kafuta has long been shattered. I have repeatedly reminded Gambia-L readers about the role Halifa played in installing Yaya Jammeh. When the military overthrew the Jawara regime, they immediately put a ban on all politica parties and persons with the exception of PDOIS, Halifa Sallah, Sedia Jatta and Sam Sarr. During the entire military two year transition period, Halifa was the only politician who had openly and aggressively promoted the AFPRC programs. I argued several times in this forum that had Halifa's arrogance and selfishness did not gripped him, the Draft Constitution as bad as it was, would not have been passed through his arrogant and selfishness campaign. Those fair minded readers of my contributions would recall all the facts I presented about Halifa's deeds. Halifa aggressively campaigned for the adoption of the badly diluted and ommitted Draft Constitution even before it was debated on. He was the only politician who occupied The Gambian air waves through radio one FM, in addition to the thousands of audio cassettes that he made and sent across the country urging Gambians to accept the draft constitution by voting "YES" in the 1996 Referrendum. The original Draft Constitution seeked not only for a two five-year term limit for the presidency,it also seeked for a fourty-year age limit. But the diluted draft that Halifa promoted did not contain these most important clauses. Lovers of The Gambia and truth, HOW CAN WE EXCUSE HALIFA AND HOLD YAYA JAMMEH RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MESS IN THE GAMBIA? Halifa is equally responsible for the predicament we find ourselves in today. Halifa's response to NRP/UDP proposal was embarrshing and futher exposed his total insensitivity about the common saying that "what goes arround comes arround". When Halifa was campaigning for AFPRC, Ousainou Darboe and UDP were not dreamt of. PPP was the enemy then. Halifa and PDOIS thought that the coup de tat was a blessing for a PDOIS rule in The Gambia. You must remember that by that time PDOIS was already fifteen years old, repeating the same unconnected idiology which as Waa Juwara put it " they don't understand themselves". I can only conclude that Halifa is an arrogant, selfish and slow to read the lips of The Gambian people. Imagine, it took Halifa ten years to confess that any draft constitution should be debated on by the constituents first bebore they adopts it in a referrendum. Now, will any honest NAAD supporter kindly urge Halifa " the greatest mind in The Gambia" to issue an appology statement to the people of The Gambia for the mess he put us in. If the electorates could successfully force Yaya Jammeh to cut the military transition period from four years to two, which sane mind on earth would not belief that we could have had a debate on this present tailor-made constitution that was clearly intended to suit Jammeh alone. If the electorates had the chance to debate the contitution, you would not have been pointing your wrong fingers at Ousainou Darboe in your desparate bid to make him a scape goat for Halifa and Yaya Jammeh's mess. It is absolute nonsense for Halifa to suggest now, ten years after his current constitution served its purpose that any draft constitution should be brought before The Gambian people for ratification. Halifa is the last person to understand that, and I we could understand why. I read many irrational comments on this and other forums about Ousainou Darboe and Hamat Bah as though they are the only obstacle to Halifa presidency. Some of you labelled Ousainou and Hamat as two power hungry politicians who would do evry thing to rule The Gambia. I hope you will not argue that Halifa was preparing for a PDOIS rule immediately after the AFPRC two year transition. It was only when that failed, he eyed for majority leader position in the National Assembly which he eventually snatched from Sedia who was already serving a second term, now in his third term in the House. We asked Halifa to coordinate the opposition alliance, but to most people's surprise, he ended up being the flag bearer. By all accounts Halifa and Yaya Jammeh are the same. Yaya also succeeded himself from military transition to a so called democractic rule. The executive members of NAAd have found themselves held hostage by Halifa's arrogance and selfishness, with only him serving as the Spokesman, Party Leader, Secretary, you mane it. None of the other so called Executive members have any innitaiative to redirect NAAd to answer to the call of TRUTH and TIME. I feel embarrashed when Halifa says " he answered to the call of duty". I wonder whose duty has he answered to? Certainly Yaya Jammeh again. I strongly disagree with Phoday Samateh's views on Darboe and Hamat. Phoday, like his fellow Halifa fans clearly does not understand what the political atmosphere in The Gambia. He charged that Ousainou and Hamat joined NAAD to use its ladder to acheive their presidential ambitions. Phoday simply cannot join the dots. Even one of my close friends who is a life time strong PDOIS supporter was the first to disagree with his allegations. If there any politicians who joined tha Alliance purely to sell their unsellable programs they are certainly Halifa, Waa Juwara, and OJ. Unfortunately Phoday as in many of his stories, even though he refered to them as "facts" failed to read the writings on the wall that politics is all about popularity, numbers, and programs, but most importantly numbers. We all know that one has climb the steps of any ladder to reach the top, and in the process you are talking about numbers here. Ousainou Darboe and Hamat are the only opposition politicians with the numbers. Therefore, only Ousainou Darboe and Hamat Bah could easily climb that ladder. Even the MOU that Halifa and Phoday cited as the tool for choosing the NAAD flag bearer suits Ousainou and Hamat than Halifa, Waa Juwara, and OJ if the selection process were to be exhusted. I do respect Phoday's opinion and right to criticise Ousainou and Hamat objectively. However Phoday claimed that his article was based on facts, but it is apparent thatlittle a fact if any at all can one find in his very first of the ten articles to come about the subject. Lets wait and see. Yes Hamat Bah was absolutely right that his party(NRP) and Ousainou's UDP made a great mistake by agreeing share power equally amongst the parties even though they are far from being equal. NAAD simply lacks the trust of The Gambian people and no amount of carrecature of Ousainou and Hamat can turn the Gambian electorates against them. Ousainou was the one who stood his ground to take Yaya Jammeh head on in 1996 when Halifa Sallah was still defending Jammeh. The new conspirators Halifa rallied now against freedom will go down in history for being trators serving the interest of Yaya Jammeh once again under the leadership of Halifa Sallah. Halifa better know that he cannot equate himself to Ousainou Darboe. By all standards, Ousainou is not Halifa's match, and is about time he prepare face the consequences of his treacherous deeds. The results will tell the strenght of NAAD come september. If any body thinks that NAAD can distract NRP/UDP votes on a national scale is just hallucinating. I have long decided that I will never trust doing business with these NAAD traitors. In the open they talk against Yaya, but behind the curtain, thay go to walk for him. Here comes Halifa again ready to go to work for Yaya Jammeh aftre twelve unfortunate years of his of his treacherous, and arrogant acts that put us in this predicament. How soon he forgot. The Gambians today and generations to come will never forgive you for your urgly face twelve years ago and this present day. We cannot excuse Halifa and hold Yaya Jammah responsible for anything. We will continue to hold your feet to the fire that you set. Pa. Saikou Kujabi. To be continued. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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