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, [log in to unmask] writes:

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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