Hamjatta, I must congratulate you for an excellent piece. Your observations
reflect the views of many and that's what I've been trying to explain. The
UDP has woefully failed to explain to the electorate what it will do for
them when elected into office. Like I've said before, here you have a party
of intellectuals who cannot even develop a good strategy that can appeal to
even our educated folks down here. Had they done that, those people would
have really helped spread their message. A good indication of that is the
very limited number of people living here, who bother to try to defend them
even in cyberspace.

Have a good day and bye 4Now, KB Jobe.
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
> ><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: On the UDP's Inconsistencies and Hubris
>Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 19:39:44 EDT
>
>Barrow & Toure,
>Brothers, i share your view that the UDP is capable inconsistencies >that
>if
>left unchecked would in the long run seek to undermine its combative->ness
>vis-a-vis in the struggle against the Dictatorship.
>
>Prior to the farce that became the by-elections of Baddibu and Kiang,
> >Brother
>KB and i raised the flag in the inconsistency inherent in challenging >the
>legitimacy of Roberts and on the other hand go ahead and contest
>by->elections
>administered by the very person whose chairmanship they deem as >illegal.
>This
>we argued then was going to TACITLY legitimise Roberts and in the
>long->haul
>of electoral political positioning in the run up to the 2001 >elections,
>make
>the UDP lose its moral ground. Sadly, such constructive strictures >fell on
>deaf ears as with most critical strictures that we have served to >them. As
>it
>happened, the UDP contested the said by-elections and the "results" >left
>much
>to be desired for - to  the chagrin and embarrassment of the party
>leadership. As it is, the legitimacy question that was surrounding >Roberts
>-
>at least in practical legal terms - is virtually non-existent because
> >Roberts
>has been legitimised ironically by two of the same parties contesting >his
>legitimacy: the UDP and the NRP which campaigned honorably alongside >the
>UDP
>during the by-elections. This is all thanks to the ripples of >arrogance
>that
>one sometimes can't help in detecting coming from the UDP direction. >This,
>most certainly won't help their case in the fight against the
> >Dictatorship.
>It shan't help in courting floating voters who under normal >circumstances
>would not vote for the UDP but would choose to do so now for purely
> >tactical
>reasons. Needless to point out that the UDP's current lack of political
>muscle to make certain manoeuvering and moral predicatment or dilemma, >is
>largely their own making.
>
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