Thank you Demba for sharing. Very sad indeed if unofficial results become the official results and PDOIS/Nadd loses the Wulli East National Assembly By-Election. The seat is uncomforbly close to the PDOIS stronghold of Wulli West and indeed prior to fragmentation, used to be part of the Wulli Constituency, a historically PDOIS stronghold.

PDOIS must reconnoitre and take stock. Politics is as dynamic as the peoples' lives. A political party is sustained by adapting to this dynamism. You cannot be a viable political party if you do not nurture a healthy sense of dynamic politic. If you fail to make significant inroads into the peoples' grace, people you aim to represent in governance, you must conduct a serious inventory of both structure and mission and if necessary, you must reorganize to make way for a more effective conveyance of the peoples' desires and anxieties.

The Wulli East results have demonstrated once again the peoples' affinity for PDOIS/Nadd when placed against APRC. This, even as the other opposition parties encourage their supporters to vote for the PDOIS/Nadd candidate.

I therefore recommend that if a significant opposition alliance is not to be realized, that PDOIS/Nadd refrain from putting up candidates of its own and encourage its supporters throughout the country to vote for other opposition candidates. I also encourage UDP, NRP, and GMC to actively invite PDOIS/Nadd to campaign for them by presenting them with an adhoc campaign budget and plan.

I still submit that an alliance/s from any of the following SIGNIFICANT permutations (in order of significance) is possible and must be seriously explored: These suggestions recognize the effective withdrawal of NDAM from Nadd and therefore obviate Nadd.

1. UDP-NRP-PDOIS-GMC-ppp

2. UDP-NRP-GMC-ppp
3. UDP-NRP-GMC

4. UDP-PDOIS-GMC-ppp
5. UDP-PDOIS-GMC
6. UDP-PDOIS & NRP-GMC simultaneously
7. NRP-PDOIS-GMC-ppp
8. NRP-PDOIS-GMC & UDP-ppp simultaneously

You will recognize that there are very many other permutations I have omitted. That is because they are not valuable even to the casual observer. Try-them and consider them seriously. Their entertainment tantamounts to reductio ad absurdum.

Haruna. Thank you again Demba for sharing the news of the Wulli East By-election. We look ahead to the Kombo East By-election and I hope my suggestions will be taken into advisement.

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From: Demba Baldeh <[log in to unmask]>
To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:52 pm
Subject: Unofficial results of the Bye-elections leaked!!!