Alningbara,

Since my last internal appeal to the oppostion has issues of national relevance and urgency, I have decided to OPEN IT FOR PUBLICATION.
My main commentary will be delayed. Should it be overtaken by events, I will then keep it till after the parliamentary elections of 2012.

Meanwhile, the modifed version of the current short commentary is attached to this email in MS Word format. Those who encouter problems downloading and opening it can just lift the embedded version in this email below.

Editors and bloggers who would like to share it with their respective readers have the prerogative to publish it on the editions of their outlets they deem suitable. Otherwise, just forget about it.

For those who carry it, I hope the opposition will pick one or two things from it and prepare well for the parliamentary elections:


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LOOK, THE OPPOSITION TOO SHOULD SWALLOW BLAME.
GAMBIANS ARE WORST THAN MY BAD BOY PRESIDENT JAMMEH!

By Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu, Cologne, Germany


My post-election commentary is delayed by my incredibly heavy schedules. I would however like to use this short breathing space to quickly drop some inconvenient truth to the foolish opposition strategists and the defeated anti-Jammeh keyboard tigers. Enjoy licking your wounds. Mneam, mneam. Hehehe! Catch me if you can.


I cannot buy the mystification of APRC's landslide victory by some commentators. Since the beginning this year, the APRC people have been relentlessly shouting for “100%” as their slogan. They did everything to mobilize the resources of the incumbency at their disposal for it. If we are to ignore the results of Lawyer Darboe and Hamat Bah, one can say APRC got its virtual 100% of the votes cast. So it is no rocket science. Just pure realpolitik. The current voting system favours the ruling APRC party and do not expect it to change it for you without a nasty fight. The PPP government of former President Jawara maintained an electoral method that suited it. The APRC has its desired system. Any government after APRC, be it UDP, NRP, GMC, PPP, etcetera, will of course fight for an electoral system that satisfies its taste. Alindahandi with your “we will do it better than APRC” propaganda. Let the political novices swallow that. Mbangwunleke. Nsaafo bi. Nfaaso saama aning sininding!


Hope the opposition people are not planning to stupidly enter the 2012 parliamentary race with the same failed presidential election formula? Please, unite and re-strategize. How do you expect to change the election laws through the constitutional process if you do not have the required number of parliamentary seats for it? Stop wasting your time with complaints that will just be ignored. You knew before hand the electoral process was full of shortcomings but instead of boycotting it, you chose to participate to your full capabilities. Blame yourselves for failing to pressure Jammeh enough to correct the anomalies before the November 24th election date. If you jump into no-rules boxing ring and break your bones, you don't blame the organizers and the referees. You blame yourself and the folks who would encourage you to go for the beatings. My Bad Boy President Jammeh cannot be blamed as his election game plans and rules were open to all and sundry.


WASTEFUL CAMPAIGN ON GAMBIANS WITHOUT VOTERS' CARDS
Do not forget to blame the keyboard noisemakers who exaggerated your chances of winning. You wasted your time trying to win the sympathy and votes of Diaspora Gambians who have no voters' cards instead speaking the languages of Gambians with voters' cards. Look, your Diaspora Gambian constituents can join you in singing the anti-Jammeh songs, organize protests, raise funds and petition some international entities but they will not risk their comfortable lifestyles and relative safety for you. As long as they are getting their daily dose of online gossips and can visit The Gambia without problems, they are fine. Do not also forget that you are not indispensable as I professed in my pre-election commentary. Change can happen without you the moment concerned Gambians act on my crazy idea of fighting for change without the established political intermediaries. Once you ignore my calls to reform your parties and once Diaspora Gambians are enfranchised, you will become irrelevant. Alas my Brother Mai Ahmed Fatty got the message and has since gone back to consolidate his footprints on the ground. Mai and GMC stand the better chance of getting my Princely Celebrity Endorsement in future national elections.


The opposition people love being busy only during the election period. Their strategists have failed to learn how to remain active throughout the 5-year legislative period and win hearts. You do not need a permit from the Inspector General of Police to build your daily profile with potential Gambian voters. You complain about the short official 11-day campaign slot? You had five years - 2006 to 2011 - to start early with smart civic outreach programmes. If you do not have the resources of the incumbent, you start early as a short campaign period requires a fire-power that only the ruling party can often display. I suggest you sack or retire your opposition strategists. They are not worth their salt.


PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION AS SECOND CHANCE
The impending parliamentary election of 2012 is your second chance. Please make the best use of it. A change in the current electoral code could be in the interests of ALL the opposition parties. So an ALL-opposition parliamentary election strategy will be a win-win for the parties.


I do not want to hear that UDP should lead and others should follow bla-bla-bla. Being the supposedly largest opposition group does not give the UDP the birth right to bulldoze the smaller parties into submission. Cannibalizing say, the PDOIS is something that the UDP people should not even dream of. Oops, am leaking some delicious lines of my upcoming commentary. The opposition parties should devise a minimum cost-effective consensus of unanimously backing the opposition candidates with the better chances of defeating the ruling party challengers.


If for example, a PDOIS candidate stands the best chance of winning in Serekunda East, then the other opposition parties, instead of booking separate candidates, should back the PDOIS contender. If an NRP candidate has the better chance in Saloum, apply the same formula. Follow the same procedure in constituencies that the candidates of UDP, GMC, PPP, and GPDP have better chances of defeating the APRC respectively.


It is possible. If the aim is to have enough opposition seats in the National Assembly to influence the legislative process, then the above simple formula should not be a problem. Of course, anyone with a better idea is free to float it. The interest of The Gambia supersedes party politics and personal interests. Do not just mess up with the parliamentary elections. Start strategizing today.


THE KINGSHIP ISSUE
My own concern remains the Gambia's Republican status. I wish I could be proven wrong. If the APRC collects all the parliamentary seats or a law-making majority, the chiefs and some APRC parliamentarians could re-activate their kingship campaign. They could float a motion to put it through a referendum. To me the kingship issue is not dead. It is just suspended as it was raised closer to the sensitive 2011-2013 election calendar. Until and unless President Jammeh openly distances himself from it, the kingship issue remains alive. For the chiefs would not call for monarchy after closed door meetings without the silent blessing of Babili Mansa under the pretext of freedom of opinion. They are too stupid to see the danger that once Jammeh is made king he will not need a national assembly, ruling APRC party, council of chiefs and other organs of our polity. As absolute monarch he can rule with impunity. Those who will be campaigning for a “yes” vote in a kingship referendum will nail their own political coffins.


The opposition can stop it if they pull their resources together and secure the strategic number of seats in parliament. If they fail, then the non-parliamentary civic rights groups, intellectuals, civil society organizations, media, trade unions and other concerned parties at home and abroad would have to do it. I could be forced to launch my “Operation No Jangalemeh” (Operation No Bastard) campaign to challenge the kingship issue in a referendum. Let us pray it does not come to that.


I for one do not care about President Jammeh's conducts as long as The Gambia remains an African Secular Democratic Republic. His blunders can be corrected and my generation has the intellectual capacity to do the correction in style.


GAMBIANS WORTST THAN YAHYA JAMMEH
Remember that Gambians/Africans are the ones who can solve their own problems. The International Community of cargo cult messiahs will not do it. The Gambia has no strategic natural resources that will make USA, NATO and UN send special forces to “protect civilians” and directly remove Jammeh on behalf of armchair critics dreaming about walking down to Banjul and rule over the locals. The International Criminal Court (ICC) as a possible last resort will only come when you prove before the world that you can swallow bullets like the Libyans, Egyptians or Ivorians. Are you brave enough for this step beyond shouting “Jammeh this, Jammeh that” from your safe comfort zones?


Gambians are worst than Jammeh. They can complain about say the mercenary judges and foreign business crooks exploiting Gambians but they ignore the uncles, fathers, sisters, aunties, brothers, cousins, nephews, grannies and other blood relatives destroying their fellow Gambians. You will hear some say they “don't like Yahya Jammeh and are just working for him for salaries and wages to feed families.” You selfish hypocrites. How can you claim to have the interests of The Gambia in your hearts when you are just hungry for your short-term monetary gains and jobs? Be genuine. You nyakajom and nyakafaida mafia.


Those who are praying to see Yahya Jammeh before the ICC should not forget that their own blood relatives in the Jammeh system, past, present and future could join him at The Hague. They are equally guilty of the same crimes they are accusing Jammeh of. So be sure of what you wish for. When digging the grave of your enemies, please make it deeper and bigger for all of you to rot in there together. Gambians please cut the hypocrisy or else you will force me to join Jammeh and use my intellectual prowess to help him escape whatever justice awaits him and then damn the consequences. You are warned. If I cannot condone Jammeh' dictatorial policies, I see no reason why I should entertain mob justice by lazy hypocrites and irresponsible cowards. The only innocent Gambians I know of are the animals of the Abuko Nature Reserve and its sister protected areas across the country.


GETTING PISSED OFF BY GAMBIAN HYPOCRISY
For The Gambia, Our Homeland....We need go-getters and not hypocritical go-gossipers. I am pissed off by the Gambian lazy attitudes of idle talk and zero action. Am losing my appetite for the national discourse and could follow the example of my learned good friend THE WATCHMAN by disappearing into oblivion. Coming out only when I cannot take the ongoing hypocrisy anymore or when my Noble Names are mentioned in irresponsible manners by online gossipers who would like to receive letters from my defamation attorney(s). The high rate of low intellect among Gambians, literates and illiterates alike, make them enjoy rumours and gossips more than factual information that will enlighten them. They are therefore susceptible to abuse by irresponsible keyboard gangsters who are too irresponsible to differentiate between information that is in the public interest and information that will damage, mess up and block the chances of people. One must therefore cut them to size in the same of social cohesion. There are many alternative ways of enlightening the people and the end justifies the civilized means.


NO REGRET IN ENDORSING YAHYA JAMMEH'S RE-ELECTION. I LIKE  HIM  AS A BAD BOY!
In a normal democratic game the world over, celebrities and intellectuals endorse different political candidates of their choices. Other Gambians endorsed Lawyer Ousainou Darboe and Hamat Bah. I am the only Diaspora intellectual to openly endorse President Jammeh's re-election bid online and I have no regrets. My letter to him should be on the way to his Office. Yes I constructively criticize Yahya Jammeh without fear or favour in the genuine Interest of The Gambia but I never stated anywhere in the universe that I hate him. I sincerely like President Jammeh as a bad boy and since bad boys often stick together, he will continue to enjoy my unflinching bad boy solidarity until the day he betrays me beyond reconciliation. We have seen other African countries electing sick, old, tired and senile presidents. We have at least a healthy wrester as our mascot. Anyone who believes Jammeh is ill should be honest enough to release his verifiable medical records instead of spreading second hand lies. Prove me wrong!


The Gambia being a crazy country, we need a macho and no softie as President. Don't mind the feminists. Of the presidential candidates on offer, my Brother Jammeh happens to be the better macho. I am not President Jammeh's “griot” and spokesperson and I prefer to earn my living as a street cleaner than take that job. But I strongly believe the Kanilai Farmer needs the chance to prove before his God and The Gambian taxpayers that he deserves his new fourth term in office. ECOWAS and the Commonwealth Observer Teams aside, other civil society organizations submitted their respective election reports that are waiting to be reviewed seriously. Study them and stop yapping. Those who disagree are free to carry on with their plans of removing Jammeh from office by any mean they deem necessary. It is a free world and I do not have the mandate to stop anyone.


Whatever the case the opposition and their domestic or Diaspora backers should swallow blame. By participation in the presidential election of November 24th, 2011, they helped legitimize the whole process and cannot therefore be taken serious with complaints of “problems” they saw coming.


Neutrals like my stubborn self are in a dilemma. Joining Team Jammeh has the risk of being used and dumped. Not withstanding my sincere solidarity with President Jammeh, he has to allay my fears vis-à-vis unceremonious sacking, humiliation, arrest, detention, prosecution, in-fighting or jail before I could suspend my private creative industry activities to join him. Joining the anti-Jammeh bloc on the other hand bears the risk of being betrayed and frustrated. Everyone has the right to choose the category of risks worth taking. There is nothing like a free lunch and a revolution or an evolution is no dinner party.


My dear opposition people, by the time I conclude my post-election commentary, you should concede democratic defeat, devise a new all-opposition strategy for the parliamentary election of 2012 and script road maps for the aggressive reforms of your parties with new leaders, strategies, unison and seriousness. If you don't, I will mercilessly nyafu your tongholu and twist off your ears. Don't laugh, I am dead serious!

My goodness, you anti-Jammeh people can be useless. One has to always dig your asses out of the political dead-end, eh?

Kambiya Yeyiriwa!

Crazy Christmas and Funny New Year 2012 in advance!

Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu
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Thank you all

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HSH Prince Bubacarr A. Sankanu



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