Mawdo Bamba you wrote:
"Mr. Ndow is a very great man and an honorable one for that matter. I came to know and respect him during campaigns and meetings. I will for ever respect him no matter what"
This is very commendable on your part. Regardless of what happened both Mr. Ndow and the UDP are within their rights to part ways. Mr. Ndow has a right to share his reason for leaving and the UDP is also right to defend the integrity of the party.
What I think.. not that it matters... but as a consumer of public information and a party to our national discourse, is that internal conflicts are healthy for any organization. It is an opportunity to review what happened and try to correct action if need be. Obviously Mr. Ndow is a founding member of the UDP and he is privy to all matters UDP for the past several years. He seems to be a loyal member of the party and his discontent should be addressed internally and publicly to control damage.
He is not the first person close to the leadership of the UDP to leave and what it indicates is that some people are not too happy with either the directions of the party or somethings they see as internal conflicts. The party would be wise to address those things and am pretty sure some cool heads will agree with this notion..
Also we must remember that there is a leadership vacuum brewing within the party as Mr. Darboe prepares to step aside constitutionally and therefore there is bound to be power struggle and sometimes party militants outside can be loud and threatening to the status quo.
How the UDP or any other party addresses internal matters tells a lot to the outside observer... the same or similar conflict errupted within foroyaa/PDOIS and how it was handled did not reflect well on the leadership in my opinion. It is therefore important to handle Mr. Ndow's matter with diplomacy and respect... you are rightfully doing... castigating or dismissing him like what happened to Rambo does not serve the party well...
I hope cool heads prevail and both parties are respected for making the decision they make...
Just my thoughts..
Thanks
Demba
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Bamba sering Manka Mass <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Well said,This is in response to Laye of all people. A Daniel has come to judgement. Thank you wise counsel nothing more nothing less. I never thought it should be a pound for and pound and a flesh for a flesh.Mr. Ndow is a very great man and an honorable one for that matter. I came to know and respect him during campaigns and meetings. I will for ever respect him no matter what. But that does not removed the fact that he can make mistakes and this is one of them. I only hope he realise this sooner rather than latter.I am a living witness to the fact that he was amongst the founding members of the UDP and Ousainou Darboe was not even there at the Kanifing meeting when the UDP was found. He was chosen in absentia by the members and he does not own the Party neither has he any constitutional rights to sack any from the party for personal reasons.His profession and his political life are two different worlds and I am totally saddened My dear uncle did not realise this when he decide to go public with his resignations.
king
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 03:12:08 -0400
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: The UDP Matter
To: [log in to unmask]
It appears to me that the eminent Mr. Ndow joined the UDP party for all the wrong reasons.
When Mr. Ndow joined the UDP, the only thing he was certain of is that Hon. Ousainou is a lawyer. Mr. Ndow did not know whether or not the UDP will win election or govern Gambia. After 17 years, Mr. Ndow now resigns for reasons according to him: infighting and jockeying for positions within the UDP. Mr. Ndow never mentioned the persons who were doing the in-fighting or more importantly what he (Mr. Ndow) did to stop the in-fighting.
Mr. Ndow went through the litany of his respect of Hon. Ousainou and what he (Mr. Ndow) did for the UDP in that respect of Hon. Ousaionou. That was his first mistake. You should not join a political party in anticipation of windfall from the party's electoral victories. Electoral victories are mandates for governance, not for the care and comfort of party members. Mr. Ndow can be forgiven for ignorance of this fact.
Mr. Ndow went on to narrate his experience and loss in a legal argument where the plaintiff was represented by one of the lawyers of Hon. Ousainou's firm. Again, Mr. Ndow does not understand how justice and equality works in a community. The fact that he lost a legal argument to one of the attorneys in Hon. Ousainou's chambers should encourage him (Mr. Ndow) not only to hire counsel from Hon. Ousainou's chambers, but to accord the firm greater respect for their victory in law.
It is apparent that Mr. Ndow joined the UDP to forestall this day when he would be found delinquent in law. I am pleased that Hon. Ousainou did not interfere in the delivery of justice among litigants. I am also proud of Hon. Ousainou for not considering Mr. Ndow's political party affiliation to impede justice and equity. My advice to Mr. Ndow is: Do not steal, do not lie, do not commit crimes against your fellow citizen and run and hide behind a political party. I encourage you to either join APRC, PDOIS, NRP, GMC, GPDP, or form your own party. You do not belong in the UDP because given your age as you shared, it is not certain that you can be rehabilitated.
Laye, being a PDOISard does not accrue you the appropriate clairvoyance to see Mr. Ndow's demarche as hypocritical. You do not have the capacity to join or leave PDOIS Freely. You are not capable of separating your personal, if misguided ambitions, from the objectives and goals of your political party or cult. When your main aim to join political parties is to advance your personal causes, you will run roughshod of any party with integrity. You are left with no option but to tear down what your fellow citizens create for commoner relief.
Haruna.-----Original Message-----¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
From: Haruna <[log in to unmask]>
To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 11:33 pm
Subject: Re: [G_L] The UDP Matter
Thanx Laye for sharing what you called the UDP Mess. I suppose coming from a PDOISard, the characterization could be understood as discord-mining.
I have taken the liberty of sharing what you had intended to share here at Ellen. I shall come back to share with you some ideas on the matter. After our coleagues have had a chance to read it without being cajoled to go to some non-descript website. Haruna.
Courtesy: The Point newspaper.
UDP reacts to former youth wing adviser’s resignation
Monday, April 30, 2012
The opposition United Democratic Party has reacted to the resignation of one Mr Ebou Ndow, who in a letter, sent to this paper last week, claimed he was the chairman of the party’s Banjul committee, and advisor to the party’s youth wing.Describing the move as pitiful and a tantamount to blatant betrayal, the UDP said in a statement signed by the Secretary General of the UDP youth wing, Mr Ebrima Solo Sandeng, that the impression given by Mr Ndow that “there is any iota of discord in their midst is utterly false, and is calculated to sow the seeds of disunity among its membership and to gain cheap popularity and undeserved public attention”.In a letter seen by The Point last week, Ndow cited his insecurity, factional in-fights and attacks on each other.According to him, since the purpose of the 17 years sacrifice he made for the progress and development of the party, by using his time resources and even his energy, has become meaningless, “I need not waste anymore of these against so many odds. I therefore resign without any regrets, without any ill-feeling or anger against anyone.”Below we reproduce the full text of the UDP rejoinder:The article in your paper captioned “Youth Wing Adviser Resigns” in which Mr. Ebou Ndow was reported to have resigned from the UDP, attracted my attention.Resignations and departures do take place in the life of all organisations the world over but generally, except in case of crises, people who resign do so without fanfare or recriminations, and I don’t believe that there has been any crisis in our party to warrant the diatribe and fabrications that Mr. Ndow, a founder member of the UDP, made in his interview.However, for somebody claiming to have served an organization such as the UDP with its noble ideals of building a better Gambia, who has heldpositions that Mr. Ndow claims he holds in the party, resigning over some mysterious personal reasons and announcing it in the press one can only conclude that there is an ulterior motive to it.We belong to a democratically run party, believing in freedom of the individualand it is Mr. Ndow’s right to leave the party if he so wishes just like it was his right to join. We can only wonder why he found it necessary to leave in the manner he did, throwing innuendoes and casting aspersions on the party that he helped to create and nurture. This is not the act of a Ghorr and the whole truth will be known sooner than later.The reason why I have taken it upon myself to react to the story in the newspaper is that he has said that he is the adviser of the Youth Wing of the party. I happen to be the present Secretary of the Youth Wing and an Executive member and I know that Mr. Ndow has never been an adviser of the Youth Wing. As a matter of fact, this position does not exist in our party structure. This is obviously part of Mr. Ndow’s imagination and concoctionI am even more amazed that he should be talking about his resignation being discussed at the UDP Central Committee. After all these years in the party, Mr. Ndow still does not know that the role of Central Committee does not include discussing things like resignations.Mr Ndow has always been held in high esteem in the party and his elderly preaching about unity and loyalty in all circumstances is well known. Our bewilderment and disbelief are incalculable.For Mr. Ndow to now go against his own stance and try miserably to denigrate the party and its leadership to which he belonged since the party was created, is pitiful and is tantamount to blatant betrayal.Some party rank and file members have told us that they saw it coming and his behavior and actions showed signs of his intention to betray the party and its leadership. Some of us are therefore not surprised at allAs for his confused utterances on the internal relationships in the party, particularly the Executive Committee, I know for certain that this party, thank God, has always been and remainsas cohesive and united as any other, if not more than any other in this country.I only want to say in conclusion that the impression Mr. Ndow wants to give to the public that there is any iota of discord in our midst is utterly false, and is calculated to sow the seeds of disunity among our membership, and to gain cheap popularity and undeserved public attention. In this he has failed miserably. This party is now stronger and more united in face of all adversity from any quarters including turncoats.-----Original Message-----¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html
From: Laye <[log in to unmask]>
To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 11:56 am
Subject: [G_L] The UDP Mess
Now I realize UDP is even more screwed up than I had thought:
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/udp-reacts-to-former-youth-wing-advisers-resignation
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