In case you didn't get it the last time i said it here, the die has been
cast: welcome to the final countdown to end of the terror of the Jammeh era.
As we predicted, and contrary to the lies that detractors of the Alliance are
desperately peddling, the Alliance's maiden rally in Brikama will forever be
remembered as the significant moment which shook the corrupt roots of the
tyrannous regime of Jammeh to its core and set in motion forces that can only
engineer the end of the reign of terror Gambians have become accustomed to
under Jammeh. The follow-up rally in Bakau attended by thousands signalled
what amounts to nothing more than the eventual building up of a momentum that
can only aid  our efforts in decapitating the ugly head of the crack-pot
dictatorship.

The repercussions of these Alliance rallies are now being felt in all sectors
of the Gambian polity. First the moron reacted with his typical stupidity
when Bharat Joshi attended an Opposition function by expelling the gentleman
from the Gambia as HM's deputy High Commissioner in Banjul without forwarding
any legitimate reasons whatsoever on the said expulsion. As i submitted
earlier, that expulsion was the high-tide of what is now effectively the
building of an anti- APRC momentum. To prove the point, and barely a week
after Bharat's expulsion, Sedat Jobe was forced to resign in what is
effectively a smouldering crisis within the APRC. Suffice to say that it
would not be a matter of exaggeration to suggest that the APRC is now in the
throes of panic and disarray. There is a rich irony here. Now, shortly after
the YMCA talks that gave birth to the Alliance brought to  the fore
personality spats within the Opposition, commentators insidiously allied with
and sympathetic to the APRC, were busy writing off the Alliance and
predicting a thumping "victory" for Jammeh. What a difference a week makes in
politics! Effectively, what was being suggested about the Alliance is now the
case with the APRC. Today, it is the APRC that is looking exhausted and in
complete disarray.

As the current momentum continues to build up against the APRC, we must
exploit it by gravitating towards it in a manner befitting the dawning of a
velvet revolution ala Czechslovakia and Poland in the late 80s as Communism
drew its last breath in Eastern Europe. The Alliance must seize the
initiative and intensify the pressure on the beleaguered APRC. As the APRC
frantically tries to grasp the meaning of the current momementum building up
against them, the Alliance must enter ever nook and cranny of the Gambia and
convince the Gambian peoples that on the 19th of October, Jammeh will be
emptied into the dustbin of history. Also the Alliance mustn't relent in the
message Mr Darbo cogently spelled out in Brikama: Gambians are moving forward
to an era which politically, socially and economically rewards hardworking
citizens and the equal protection of the fundamental liberties of all
Gambians will be a sure thing of post- Jammeh Gambia. This message is the
message. It is coherent, subversive, progressive and in sync with the hopes
and anxieties of ordinary Gambians who continue to be brutalised by this
crack-pot regime.

The momentum that we have earnestly prayed for is finally here. We mustn't
let it slip through our fingers. The effective and relentless onslaught the
Alliance has embarked upon since the 18th of August must be intensified by
all means. That way, the only possible way Jammeh can delay his inevitable
demise, is to postpone the October elections. Or worse declare a State of
Emergency on the spurrious premise of National Security concerns. Either way,
we will mustn't despair for credible and legitimate alternatives exist for us
that we must fully exploit. When the tough gets going, we must take to the
streets and engage in all sorts of civil disobediences that will paralyse the
regime. The Alliance must remember and never forget for a minute that the
moron is finished. All he can do now is to foolishly try to subvert the
current momentum by thuggishly bullying innocent citizens into submitting to
his will and all sorts of crazy tomfoolery in order to maintain the status
quo. Let the Alliance take comfort from the recent histories of the Serbian
and Ivorian peoples who stood their grounds when the crack-pot dictatorships
of Milosevic and Guei tried to brow beat the peoples of these countries into
succumbing to their will through amoral political chicanery and malevolence.
Similarly, albeit the morons desperate attempts to keep together his
disintegrating evil regime, the moron is done for; nothing can save him now.
Whilst we wait earnestly for October 19th, when we start penning his
obituary, we might as well start counting his final days - nay, his final
hours in power.

Hamjatta Kanteh

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