Al, some how you guys could not see the murderer and criminal in Jammeh. I
guess until he is nabbed, will you folks accept that your emperor is naked.
Chei!
Chi Jaama
Joe
>From: Alieu Sanyang <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: FWD: Opposition parties aim for the national cake
>Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:18:26 -0700
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>Curled from the progressiveafricans.com written by Ebou Jallow.
>
> Alieu.
>
>“NADD wanted positions; they wanted the cake that is not yet baked. This is
>the problem.” Hamat Bah, UDP/NRP.
>
> Let us not forget that the Gambian opposition has always been in
>politics of suspicion trim with occasional irruptions of loathing and
>demagoguery. Hamat Bah has upped the ante to some new heights with just
>one operative word in his latest madness: Want; a word that means in this
>context the one-dimensional, asocial, and selfish desire for personal gain
>by any means. Incidentally, NADD as a political institution was or is a
>means to an end for a cabal of interests whose rhetoric of “democracy”,
>“rights” and “rule of law” is nothing but a chimera before some sinister
>ambitions to gain wealth and glory.
> However, the natures of the personalities leading the opposition deploy
>interesting schemes that correspond with their burning desires. NADD led
>by Halifa Sallah strives for some collective insurance of power based on
>anticipated obligations towards the “political entity’s” Memorandum of
>Understanding. Halifa has a repressed and submissive ego that can only
>function by complete submission to external influence (the MOU,
>Constitution, African Charters, etc., etc.) The UDP, led by Ousainou
>Darboe, is consumed by an unbridled impulse to dominate regardless of any
>external influence. The NRP, led by Hamat Bah, is perfidious, unprincipled
>and a fraud that survives by slipping through the cracks. Halifa is
>pathologically naïve and politically foolish; Darboe a degenerate
>narcissist; and Hamat Bah is mad as hatter.
> President Jammeh shall always win beyond a doubt, and that is why he is
>the most important stakeholder in the coming September elections as long as
>politics is all about effective strategic actions to gain the popular vote.
> Winning is only one side of the political game since the potential losers
>also do have a reactionary stratagem: Visceral hatred towards the APRC, IEC
>and President Jammeh true to Henry Adams’ definition of politics as “the
>systematic organization of hatreds.” The fissures that Gambians witness
>within the opposition today is nothing but psychodrama triggered by some
>repressed power struggle that has been latent amongst these misguided
>public figures. The UDP/NRP mistakes ethnic supremacy for political
>strength whilst NADD aims to achieve power through a subterfuge in order to
>make up for its political weakness. The heterogeneity of these motivations
>has been ignored by NADD’s grand constitutional design to their detriment.
>And it seems that Halifa
> has still not learned from this bitter lesson yet.
> Building a viable democracy goes beyond populist sloganeering about
>human rights. Democracy demands credible political parties to compete for
>the public trust, socio-economic reforms, and legal advances that allow
>space for modernization. This takes a lot of time and effort which the
>APRC rightfully recognized in its Vision 2020 political platform. The
>Gambian opposition on the other hand has been busy undermining, weakening
>and supplanting the will of the people with political fraudsters and ethnic
>supremacists who have nothing to offer but perverse cynicism, hatred,
>suspicion and alarmist rhetoric.
>
>
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