Daffeh, 

Is it useful debating with you since you provide no reasons but just insults? First of all, indeed UDP as a party should consider the wishes of the people instead of few big headed party supporters,like you said. Secondly what overtures and national interest that is above coalition. The parties are now acting as group of 5 or 6 and such remarks from you without any substance are bound to bring disrepute. After all, the only thing Sidia said was that Ousainou would have been chosen as the flag bearer, in his opinion, since he would have contested against Hamat and Gomez, and he was only answering concerns raised by the attendees and since you have not refute that, what is your problem? So let us agree to disagree and help fund the legal tussles that group faces, rather than be the dividing factor.

 

Kejau 

> Kejau,
> It was not meant to be a coalition between Ousainu Darboe and other
> opposition parties. So the potential of Darboe winning a convention is
> irrelevant. Mr Darboe was not negotiating on his own behalf but onbehalf
> of
> a soveriegn political party, the United Democratic Party and that party
> has
> principles to observe and the truth to defend in the national interest.
> While we are always willing and ready to make compromises and overtures
> for
> the purpose of engendering achieving and fostering unity, we have no
> interest whatsoever, in giving comfort to the kind of unreasonable
> intransigence,lies peddling, wishful idealism and the sheer hypocrisy the
> likes of Sidia Jatta had been championing in thje recent past.
>
> The UDP have led the way in the search for unity and had made bold
> overtures to achieve the same but without success. The facts are already
> clearly stated in our many press statements and those of other
> commentators. I do not intend to add anything further to the same.
>
> We know that PDOIS's Ayatollahs are too obssessed with Lawyer Darboe's
> elite status, something they loathe so much (it most be a crime to be
> considered an elite in the world of socialism) but I think it about time
> they get a life.
>
> Kind Regards
> Daffeh
>
>
>
> On 7 November 2012 12:39, Kejau Touray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Listening to the eloquent Sidia Jatta last weekend in Oslo at the Meet
>> the
>> Diaspora meeting organized by ACID, it is convincing that we should
>> support
>> the opposition group of 5 or 6 to taking the dictatorship to court in
>> town
>> on issues relevant to constitutionality of the conduct of the election,
>> the
>> IEC leadership tenure, among others. Beside the fact of the brief
>> history
>> lesson on the failure of coalition formation, the veteran politician
>> explained the PDOIS policy and history, among other things. This
>> convinced
>> me to join PDOIS and support their efforts in getting Gambia back to its
>> glory days. I am a capitalist and did not think PDOIS and their
>> socialist
>> policy is the way forward for our country but my partner recently asked
>> me
>> if I am president of The Gambia what policies WE will put forward for
>> our
>> development and I was very surprised that Sidia Jatta proffered the same
>> goal and policies, as I did. Also very important was Sidia Jatta's
>> rebuttal
>> of PDOIS being a tribal party, mentioning that Halifa learnt the
>> Mandinka
>> language in months and he Sidia being of both Fula and Mandinka origin.
>> Sidia also confirmed my belief that Ousainou Darboe would have won the
>> leadership contest at the last coalition conference had be participated
>> to
>> the end.
>>
>> I am therefore convinced that there is still hope for democratic process
>> by using the rule of law to correct ills, as he put it. They need
>> resources
>> for the legal battles and we should all create funds to support their
>> efforts as for the first time, we have all five or even 6 political
>> parties
>> coming together for a common cause. He urged all to send crowns, cents
>> and
>> pence to our respective parties and not wait until the elections.
>>
>> I hope Nyang and others have membership forms that can be duplicated and
>> shared so that we can start garnering support for PDOIS!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kejau
>>
>>
>>
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