Evian,
This sounds like a great improvement toward advancing the prospects of a
coalition. If it is a coalition you desire. You have expressed some anxiety
about Ousainou's commitment to leading a prospective coalition and some of the
leaders of other parties expressed similar reservations.
SO instead of creating anxiety for yourselves and then fret over relieving
that same anxiety, why not seek a coalition with the UDP/NRP alliance as
coordinator and leader???? That way you will rely on the choice of the majority
of Gambians for leader??? You will have a flag-bearer, coordinator, and a
coalition at the same time. You must now be convinced that coalition leadership
is not terribly significant for Ousainou in the larger scheme of things.
However you will have acceded to the wish of majority Gambians. Gambians you
must seek votes from for the coalition. That is the way democracies solve
leadership anxieties. We can make this matter as complicated or as simple as we
want it to be. We can waste a lot of time doing it too. Create new anxieties.
Father Mose I don't wanna hear it.
I advise the UDP/NRP to come up with a plan for a coalition with a two-term
presidential limit and relieved of the cockamayme burdensome and
self-destructive engineering of the MOU. Share the plan with all
the opposition parties and convene a conference IN GAMBIA to prosecute
the upcoming presidential elections. The parties can prosecute their council and
legislative elections however they desire. The UDP/NRP is best advised to
continue building and strengthening their parties. They will need that with or
without an adhoc coalition. No more wasting valuable time for coalition
pannafore. It is terribly insignificant without crazy Yahya leading Gambia.
Gambians will be Gambians.
Whaddaya think? Send OJ and Waa to me. I'll entertain them with on the
beach. With a martini and an umbrella. Haruna
In a message dated 7/13/2009 3:46:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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Personally, I have always believed that since the
United States Military presence in the Gambia on July 22, 1994
facilitated the military take-over by Jammeh and his gang, the
United States therefore owe Gambians much more in our just struggle
against Yahya Jammeh's dictatorship. However the most effective strategy
of change is for a concerted Gambian opposition effort to defeat the
incumbent at the polls in 2011.
Consequently, I also believe that
Lawyer Ousainou Darboe should be more assertive towards uniting the
opposition under his leadership with an entrenched two-term presidential
limit. However for now, Lawyer Darboe seems to me to be more preoccupied
with his Law practice than in politics. Unless am missing out some
aspects of Gambian politics.
In the same vein, It is therefore
high time that the opposition in the Gambia started the process of
uniting under one political umbrella with Ousainou Darboe as the head of
any such coalition. I think this is the best way out for Gambians from
Yahya Jammeh's failed and disgraceful
leadership.
Bailo
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