Alieu,
We should not withdraw from this issue for fear of what Saihou may say . By
all indications he has seriously erred. None of us had a hand in choosing
our parents, therefore it is wrong totake one to task for some choice made
by his/her parent. I accordingly urge Saihou to apologize.
Omar Joof.
>From: Alieu Sanyang <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [>-<] Ousainou Darboe's Funny Protest!
>Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:23:39 -0700
>
>Ginny,
> Mistake or not, the guy has no reason to bring another one's family into
>this kind of debate. I am sure I would also be pointed out as the wrong
>person to talk about this hence I wanted to see the APRC win.
> So may be I better just excuse myself out of this to save my throat.
> Alieu.
>
>Ginny Quick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> "Yusupha Jaw, i believe you are the wrong person to
>call Ousainou Darboe to step down when you failed to
>call Aunty Satang Charles Jaw to resign when she was
>serving President Jammeh' Junta regime as a secretary
>of state in the early days of the July 22nd Coup
>d'etat.
>
>We will debate this when i finish this fight with the
>APRC."
>
>Saihou, while I understand that emotions might be high at the moment
>and nerves a little raw, is this necessary? I think many people
>served in the early days of the Jammeh-led military government. Maybe
>this was not a good thing, but people did, and I don't think that
>their family members should be held to account for that. Just my
>personal opinion. I think I understand what you are trying to say,
>but people do make mistakes, and perhaps that was the case in this
>instance.
>
>Ginny
>
>
>
>On 9/25/06, saihou Mballow wrote:
> > Yusupha Jaw, i believe you are the wrong person to
> > call Ousainou Darboe to step down when you failed to
> > call Aunty Satang Charles Jaw to resign when she was
> > serving President Jammeh' Junta regime as a secretary
> > of state in the early days of the July 22nd Coup
> > d'etat.
> >
> > We will debate this when i finish this fight with the
> > APRC.
> >
> > Saihou
> >
> >
> > --- Yusupha Jow wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all:
> > > Once again, Ousainou Darboe, the UDP and the other
> > > fringe groups that
> > > constitute their Alliance had another bout of funny
> > > behavior!
> > >
> > > I stayed up all night on Friday, visiting the
> > > various website that had news
> > > on the elections. The UDP website was also updating
> > > the election results. In
> > > fact, they had a very nice interface which updated
> > > things such as voter
> > > turnout and percentage of votes accrued by each
> > > party as the votes came in.
> > > I was impressed.
> > >
> > > A few hours later, and after it became clear that
> > > this was a landslide, the
> > > UDP website mysteriously stopped updating election
> > > results. I figured at
> > > first that it was just a small hitch and they'd be
> > > back up and running at
> > > some point. But as the State House website continued
> > > to publish election
> > > results, I started to think a bout of funniness had
> > > engulfed the UDP camp..
> > > Alas I was right.
> > >
> > > As I remarked to a friend in an IM conversation the
> > > next morning, I figured
> > > the UDP camp wouldn't accept the results and this is
> > > exactly what happened
> > > when Mballow posted the UDP's official mail on the
> > > elections.
> > >
> > > Fine, so they disavowed the election results but why
> > > did they choose to go
> > > with the process until it became apparent that
> > > things weren't going in their
> > > favor. We all knew a long time ago that the playing
> > > field in The Gambia
> > > wasn't level with respect to elections. Many of us
> > > were aware of the blatant
> > > violations of the MOU: The state doesn't
> > > differentiate between its resources
> > > and those of the APRC, state media is biased in
> > > favor of the APRC and so on
> > > and so forth.
> > >
> > > Bottom line is, Ousainou Darboe once again had
> > > another bout of funniness.
> > > Just like he did when he realized that the NADD
> > > leadership selection process
> > > wasn't going this way, he willingly entered an
> > > agreement just to drastically
> > > back out when things didn't work out in his favor.
> > > Ousainou Darboe's funny
> > > behavior is something Gambians cannot afford given
> > > the chips at stake now.
> > >
> > > I therefore urge UDP brothers and sisters to urge
> > > the man to step down. To
> > > challenge Yaya Jammeh, Gambia requires dynamic
> > > leaders who have foresight --
> > > not ones that enter agreements willingly only to
> > > turn funny when the going
> > > gets tough. Enuff of the nonsense!
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Yusupha
> > >
> >
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