Pa Saikou:

You have said it all.  Halifa and certainly his PDOIS/NADD bodies seem to be 
the Alices leaving in wonderland.  I just don't understand how they can 
proclaim themselves as the popular opposition party in the Gambia.  I have 
seen this misleading statement written in some forums by their so-called 
propagandist and in any case, I just couldn't help but laugh.  I wonder if 
these people coming with these rotten ideas, are from the same Gambia you 
and I came from and if they bother to find the truth themselves or rely on 
hearsay about what is going on.  NADD certainly wishes it is the popular 
party.  But it doesn't seem obvious.
History is a beautiful thing as every sane and objective individual use it 
to learn from past events.  Even the insane could use it to make decisions 
at times.  Few months ago, something interesting; something that should 
serve as a great lesson particularly for NADD camp and the politicians in 
the Gambia happen.  The by-election in the kombo north had proved the 
NADDers that they are nothing but a minute minority in the Gambia.  And it 
is about time they accept the palpable.  Don't make your self what you are 
not!!!
The failure of  PDOIS and her leadership, to establish it as viable 
political party, has has everything to do with the people who were in 
charge.  The pompous arrogant attitude that seem to be displayed by these 
so-called PDOIst. And we are witnessing similar trends going into NADD.  Too 
damn bad!!!
And in the Gambia that I hailed from, you are always a minority if you put 
yourself above everybody.  You have to levelled yourself to them.  This is 
exactly what the Halifas have portrayed themselves to be.  That behavior has 
worked well against them time and time again especially at the polls.  And 
when they got bitten at the polls, it is everybody's but their fault.  They 
will accuse others of vote buying and many other things.  Time will tell who 
the popular oppositon party is.

>From: "Pa.Saikou Kujabi" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list              
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: NAAD RESPONSE TO NRP/UDP ALLIANCE
>Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:14:10 -0700
>
>Halifa Sallah is back again working for Yaya Jammeh .
>Readers, it should not be a surprise for anyone who
>knows Halifa Sallah to see him going to work for Yaya
>Jammeh and the APRC regime one more time.  I have
>always said it in many internet forums that Halifa
>Sallah is as arrogant, selfish,stained, deceptive as
>Yaya Jammeh.
>
>Frankly I was astonished to read Halifa Sallah's
>letter to NRP/UDP Alliance repeating himself over and
>over again without making any point.  Most people
>would recall I have always challenged Halifa on this
>particular forum about his role in installing Yaya
>Jamme.  He never responded to those facts that I
>presented until on or about May 20, 2006 when he
>attempted to justify NAAD's humilliating performance
>in the recent Kombo East by-elections.  In that
>irresponsible and self deceiving statement, Halifa,
>just as typical of him, went on hiffing and hoffing
>again, contradicting himself and exposing his
>arrogance and insensitivity about the political wishes
>of the Gambian opposition electorates.  Halifa claimed
>that the NAAD candidate was from Pirang Village, that
>NAAD was frequently seen in that by-election campaign
>than UDP and APRC parties,that NAAD suffered most from
>the APRC vote buying, that there was no basis for
>measuring of gaining or losing popularity in that
>election, and that there was someone in the United
>Sates who sent money to the people of Kafuta to
>discourage them from voting for NAAD, among many other
>deceptive claims.  I did not have time to respond on
>time to these irresponsible statements aimed at
>keeping his NAAD sponsors in the United Staes and
>elsewhere.
>
>First and foremost, Halifa did not even know that the
>NAAD candidate (Lamin Touray) is not from Pirang, but
>Berending Village.
>
>Secondly, I truely wonder if there are sound minded
>supporters of NAAD?  I would have expected some
>reasonable person to quickly ask Halifa why NAAD
>performed so badly in an election that his party was
>"more visible, more involved with the grass roots, and
>above all as Halifa claimed, "their candidate was more
>confortable explaining NAAD's programs than UDP".
>
>Third, as far as UDP is concerned, we did not have any
>evidence to suggest that APRC had engaged in vote
>buying.  Halifa did not present any evidence including
>ther number of votes APRC bought from potential NAAD
>voters.  I hope this article will lead us to having
>those facts presented on this forum.
>
>
>Fourth, Halifa fooled himself and of course those
>blind followers by arguing that the by-election was
>not the basis for measuring gaining or losing
>popularity.  Halifa and his comrades in The Gambia,
>and of course SINK THE GAMBIA PROJECT(SAVE THE GAMBIA
>PROJECT)based in the United States have painted a
>false picture to the people in the diaspora that NAAD
>is the popular party in the Gambia, and that it has
>the backing of most if not all oppostion supporters.
>Unfortunately, Halifa and his comrades' persistent
>lies did not save them from the hummilliation NAAD
>suffered when the Kombo East by-election results were
>announced.  If politics is not about measuring
>popularity I don't know what it is about.
>
>Fifth, Halifa's allegation that someone in the United
>States sent money to discourage Kafutarians from
>voting for NAAD is as baselss and irresponsible as his
>allegations have always been.  As far as I know, there
>was no Kafutarian in the United States or elsewhere
>who had sent money directly to Kafuta to induce
>voters.  I am from Kafuta and Halifa very well knows
>that.  Therefore, I will never hesitate to set the
>records straight here.  The votes that were counted
>for NAAD as in most all the polling stations were
>Lamin Touray votes and not NAAD as a party.
>Kafutarians in particular, were receiving mixed
>message before they got the facts.  There were others
>who did not change their positions even after they
>came to know the truth that UDP had nothing to do with
>NAAD.  The Lamin Touray campaingn introduced
>themselves in the name of UDP and in many of his
>supporters in Kafuta used my own namke to attract
>voters.  I personally had high regards for Lamin
>Touray for many reasons, but most importantly as a
>citizen of The Gambia, and Kombo East District.  You
>better be adviced that we in the Kombo East are
>closely related just as in all parts of The The
>Gambia.  NAAD can only be remembered for being the
>only custodian of the SPOILER VOTES that effectively
>helped APRC narrowly carried  seat in the Kombo East
>by-election.  I would like assure Halifa that NAAD's
>two humdred votes in Kafuta has long been shattered.
>
>I have repeatedly reminded Gambia-L readers about the
>role Halifa played in installing Yaya Jammeh.  When
>the military overthrew the Jawara regime, they
>immediately put a ban on all politica parties and
>persons with the exception of PDOIS, Halifa Sallah,
>Sedia Jatta and Sam Sarr.  During the entire military
>two year transition period, Halifa was the only
>politician who had openly and aggressively promoted
>the AFPRC programs.  I argued several times in this
>forum that had Halifa's arrogance and selfishness did
>not gripped him, the Draft Constitution as bad as it
>was, would not have been passed through his arrogant
>and selfishness campaign.  Those fair minded readers
>of my contributions would recall all the facts I
>presented about Halifa's deeds.  Halifa aggressively
>campaigned for the adoption of the badly diluted and
>ommitted Draft Constitution even before it was debated
>on. He was the only politician who occupied The
>Gambian air waves through radio one FM, in addition to
>the thousands of audio cassettes that he made and sent
>across the country urging Gambians to accept the draft
>constitution by voting "YES" in the 1996 Referrendum.
>The original Draft Constitution seeked not only for a
>two five-year term limit for the presidency,it also
>seeked for a fourty-year age limit.  But the diluted
>draft that Halifa promoted did not contain these most
>important clauses.
>
>Lovers of The Gambia and truth, HOW CAN WE EXCUSE
>HALIFA AND HOLD YAYA JAMMEH RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MESS
>IN THE GAMBIA?
>Halifa is equally responsible for the predicament we
>find ourselves in today.  Halifa's response to NRP/UDP
>proposal was embarrshing and futher exposed his total
>insensitivity about the common saying that "what goes
>arround comes arround".  When Halifa was campaigning
>for AFPRC, Ousainou Darboe and UDP were not dreamt of.
>  PPP was the enemy then.  Halifa and PDOIS thought
>that the coup de tat was a blessing for a PDOIS rule
>in The Gambia.  You must remember that by that time
>PDOIS was already fifteen years old, repeating the
>same unconnected idiology which as Waa Juwara put it "
>they don't understand themselves".  I can only
>conclude that Halifa is an arrogant, selfish and slow
>to read the lips of The Gambian people.  Imagine, it
>took Halifa ten years to confess that any draft
>constitution should be debated on by the constituents
>first bebore they adopts it in a referrendum.  Now,
>will any honest NAAD supporter kindly urge Halifa "
>the greatest mind in The Gambia" to issue an appology
>statement to the people of The Gambia for the mess he
>put us in. If the electorates could successfully force
>Yaya Jammeh to cut the military transition period from
>four years to two, which sane mind on earth would not
>belief that we could have had a debate on this present
>tailor-made constitution that was clearly intended to
>suit Jammeh alone.  If the electorates had the chance
>to debate the contitution, you would not have been
>pointing your wrong fingers at Ousainou Darboe in your
>desparate bid to make him a scape goat for Halifa and
>Yaya Jammeh's mess.  It is absolute nonsense for
>Halifa to suggest now, ten years after his current
>constitution served its purpose that any draft
>constitution should be brought before The Gambian
>people for ratification.  Halifa is the last person to
>understand that, and I we could understand why.
>
>I read many irrational comments on this and other
>forums about Ousainou Darboe and Hamat Bah as though
>they are the only obstacle to Halifa presidency.  Some
>of you labelled Ousainou and Hamat as two power hungry
>politicians who would do evry thing to rule The
>Gambia.  I hope you will not argue that Halifa was
>preparing for a PDOIS rule immediately after the AFPRC
>two year transition.  It was only when that failed, he
>eyed for majority leader position in the National
>Assembly which he eventually snatched from Sedia who
>was already serving a second term, now in his third
>term in the House.  We asked Halifa to coordinate the
>opposition alliance, but to most people's surprise, he
>ended up being the flag bearer.  By all accounts
>Halifa and Yaya Jammeh are the same.  Yaya also
>succeeded himself from military transition to a so
>called democractic rule.
>
>The executive members of NAAd have found themselves
>held hostage by Halifa's arrogance and selfishness,
>with only him serving as the Spokesman, Party Leader,
>Secretary, you mane it.  None of the other so called
>Executive members have any innitaiative to redirect
>NAAd to answer to the call of  TRUTH and TIME.  I feel
>embarrashed when Halifa says " he answered to the call
>of duty".  I wonder whose duty has he answered to?
>Certainly Yaya Jammeh again.
>
>I strongly disagree with Phoday Samateh's views on
>Darboe and Hamat.  Phoday, like his fellow Halifa fans
>clearly does not understand what the political
>atmosphere in The Gambia.  He charged that Ousainou
>and Hamat joined NAAD to use its ladder to acheive
>their presidential ambitions.  Phoday simply cannot
>join the dots.  Even one of my close friends who is a
>life time strong PDOIS supporter was the first to
>disagree with his allegations.  If there any
>politicians who joined tha Alliance purely to sell
>their unsellable programs they are certainly Halifa,
>Waa Juwara, and OJ.  Unfortunately Phoday as in many
>of his stories, even though he refered to them as
>"facts" failed to read the writings on the wall that
>politics is all about popularity, numbers, and
>programs, but most importantly numbers.  We all know
>that one has climb the steps of any ladder to reach
>the top, and in the process you are talking about
>numbers here.  Ousainou Darboe and Hamat are the only
>opposition politicians with the numbers.  Therefore,
>only Ousainou Darboe and Hamat Bah could easily climb
>that ladder.  Even the MOU that Halifa and Phoday
>cited as the tool for choosing the NAAD flag bearer
>suits Ousainou and Hamat than Halifa, Waa Juwara, and
>OJ if the selection process were to be exhusted.  I do
>respect Phoday's opinion and right to criticise
>Ousainou and Hamat objectively.  However Phoday
>claimed that his article was based on facts, but it is
>apparent thatlittle a fact if any at all can one find
>in his very first of the ten articles to come about
>the  subject.  Lets wait and see.
>
>Yes Hamat Bah was absolutely right that his party(NRP)
>and Ousainou's UDP made a great mistake by agreeing
>share power equally amongst the parties even though
>they are far from being equal.  NAAD simply lacks the
>trust of The Gambian people and no amount of
>carrecature of Ousainou and Hamat can turn the Gambian
>electorates against them.  Ousainou was the one who
>stood his ground to take Yaya Jammeh head on in 1996
>when Halifa Sallah was still defending Jammeh.  The
>new conspirators Halifa rallied now against freedom
>will go down in history for being trators serving the
>interest of Yaya Jammeh once again under the
>leadership of Halifa Sallah.  Halifa better know that
>he cannot equate himself to Ousainou
>Darboe.  By all standards, Ousainou is not Halifa's
>match, and is about time he prepare face the
>consequences of his treacherous deeds.   The results
>will tell the strenght of NAAD come september.  If any
>body thinks that NAAD can distract NRP/UDP votes on a
>national scale is just hallucinating.
>
>I have long decided that I will never trust doing
>business with these NAAD traitors.  In the open they
>talk against Yaya, but behind the curtain, thay go to
>walk for him. Here comes Halifa again ready to go to
>work for Yaya Jammeh aftre twelve unfortunate years of
>his of his treacherous, and arrogant acts that put us
>in this predicament.  How soon he forgot.  The
>Gambians today and generations to come will never
>forgive you for your urgly face twelve years ago and
>this present day.  We cannot excuse Halifa and hold
>Yaya Jammah responsible for anything.  We will
>continue to hold your feet to the fire that you set.
>
>Pa. Saikou Kujabi.
>
>To be continued.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
>http://mail.yahoo.com
>
>いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい
>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]
>いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい

いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい
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]
いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい