My Dear Suntou
Many thanks for clarifying your position on this matter. My concern in this discourse is the timing of your article and the motives if there is any for sending such piece. In all honesty, we should redouble our efforts in ensuring that Jammeh gets defeated once and for all. We should therefore position our energy towards the APRC camp and make sure that the Silent Majority come of the wilderness and vote decisvely for the Grand Opposition Coalition. We must therefore work towards reconciling all Opposition Parties so that a United Front could be in place for 2011 Presidential Elections.
Whilst I share your unquestionable affection for UDP, I must stress the need for restraint. We should be calling on our Executive to formulate proposals for a Strong and United Front Opposition for 2011 Presidential Elections.
Yours in the struggle to liberate Gambia from Jammehism
Sanusi Owens
--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Sanusi Owens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Sanusi Owens <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Something tells me the UDP is not pleased with Halifa's revisionist disposition.
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, 2 February, 2010, 21:03
> --- On Tue, 2/2/10, suntou touray
> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > From: suntou touray <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Something tells me the UDP is not pleased
> with Halifa's revisionist disposition.
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Tuesday, 2 February, 2010, 20:36
> > Bailo, the statement
> > wasn’t saying Halifa engineered the lost of the NRP
> > leader’s seat but that the lost resulted from the
> > registration of NADD as a political party against
> every
> > sound legal advice. That is undeniable. You should
> also be
> > reminded that decision making in NADD was meant to be
> based
> > on unanimity but this did not happen in respect of
> the
> > registration as the UDP was clearly against it. The
> only
> > people that were connected to the registration were
> Halifa
> > and PDOIS. Since the registration did not earn the
> unanimous
> > approval of all member parties, the UDP-UK statement
> is
> > absolutely in line with the truth when it described it
> as
> > clandestine.
> >
> > I agree with you though that we
> > should move on with a more positive approach toward
> 2011.
> > However, I hope you too will appreciate that this
> statement
> > was just a mere response to an attack from Halifa. A
> > response is therefore necessary and should have been
> > expected. Attacking me personally on this issue is out
> of
> > line as this not about me.
> >
> > I hope you will desist from turning
> > this as a personal matter between you and myself. I am
> not
> > UDP-UK, I am just a mere coordinator.
> >
> > By the way, when you start advising
> > Halifa to focus his lense on issues that will foster
> unity
> > and togetherness, then we will leave him alone. If you
> have
> > read the UDP U.K's response with an open mind, you
> will
> > notice that we avoided commenting on Halifa white
> elephant
> > project of an agenda. And finally Bailo you should be
> the
> > last person to get personal with people. If i
> remember
> > carefully, you have in the past engaged in a bitter
> insult
> > contest over personality. Stop getting carried away
> with
> > Suntou, I have no time for personal tussle. The UDP
> U.K
> > reserves the right to rectify Halifa's continous
> > misinformation, and if that boil your blood, you will
> have
> > to find a way to deal with it.
> >
> > Sanusi, your position is much
> > respected, but i beg to differ with the notion that we
> have
> > to leave Halifa alone to carry on twisting facts for
> the
> > sake unity. What sort of unity are you calling on
> to? If
> > Halifa feels he is astute enough to plaster errors in
> the
> > Gambian world wide, we too reserve the rights to
> correct
> > him. If that is seen as causing disharmony, then so
> be
> > it.
> >
> > Ansumana, thanks for speaking the
> > truth amidst the fact bending. Some feel we should
> leave
> > Halifa to say whatever he wants, we say no to that.
> > There are two sides to every story.
> >
> > Suntou
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:19 PM,
> > bailo jallow <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Ansu said:
> >
> > "Let us be objective and stop demonizing each other
> > and be serious about the issue at hand; how do we
> > effectively dislodge Jammeh from power to give our
> people
> > the space they need to better themselves.
> Name-calling and
> > mischaracterization of the other side’s agenda and
> motives
> > will not get us there ever."
> >
> >
> > I cannot agree more with the above statement; Indeed
> > there is no politician whose agenda have been more
> > deliberately distorted within all the opposition than
> > Halifa's. One such distortion by UDP-UK is as
> > follows:
> >
> >
> > "The lost of NRP leader’s Upper Saloum
> parliamentary
> > seat in the 2005 by-election which was by the way
> > necessitated by Halifa’s clandestine registration of
> NADD
> > as a political party against every sound legal advice
> and in
> > contravention of the Preamble and Part1[1] of the
> Memorandum
> > of Understanding that explicitly established NADD as
> an
> > alliance.....",
> >
> >
> > The question that arises from
> > the above unsubstantiable allegation against Halifa
> is: Why
> > would he 'clandestinely' or otherwise register NADD
> > as a political party in order to render the seats held
> by
> > the original NADD alliance which includes his very own
> at
> > risk of being captured by the APRC? The problem is not
> about
> > the analysis or rebuttals or sharing of UDP's
> > perspective; it is about making untrue statements
> against
> > Halifa or Ousainou or anyone else.The undeniable
> underlining
> > of Halifa's piece that UDP-UK were supposedly
> reacting
> > to is that the Gambian electorate clearly expressed
> their
> > dissatisfaction with the all the opposition parties
> more
> > than with the ruling party. Constantly blaming Halifa
> or
> > Ousainou or NADD or UDP or NRP or PDOIS for the
> fall-out of
> > NADD or the poor results of the either of the
> opposition
> > cannot therefore be the best course ahead.
> >
> >
> > Henceforth, our focus ought to be on trying to
> identify the
> > conditions for a tactical alliance between the
> opposition
> > parties which both Halifa and Ousainou have
> respectively
> > identified as a viable way forward. Also, all
> opposition
> > parties need to give very high priority towards
> reversing
> > the prevailing general voter apathy. Only the APRC
> stands to
> > benefit from it.
> >
> >
> > Suntou, I hope you are not offended with me calling
> your
> > name. Please accept my apologies if you are. Let us
> pave the
> > best way forward and focus on the real issue at hand,
> that
> > of defeating the incumbent.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> > Bailo
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Tue, 2/2/10, Ansumana Bojang <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: Ansumana Bojang <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> >
> > Subject: Re: Something tells me the UDP is not pleased
> with
> > Halifa's revisionist disposition.
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Date: Tuesday, 2 February, 2010, 11:03
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I find some of you guys totally disingenuous in your
> > claim to want to foster good neighborliness amongst
> the
> > opposition parties and so urge UDP supporters to
> refrain
> > from "attacking" Mr. Sallah yet where were
> > y'all whenever Mr. Sallah or anyone else comes out
> with
> > their attacks on UDP? This piece that you all are up
> in
> > arms about is a response to a piece Mr. Sallah wrote
> that
> > had some very strong so-called attacks on UDP but I
> did not
> > see any one of you say a word about Sallah needing to
> show
> > restrain. As far as I am concern, after reading the
> UDP UK
> > piece carefully, I think it is very good one in their
> > attempt to set the record straight statistically from
> their
> > perspective.
> >
> >
> > Let us be objective and stop demonizing each other and
> be
> > serious about the issue at hand; how do we
> effectively
> > dislodge Jammeh from power to give our people the
> space they
> > need to better themselves. Name-calling and
> > mischaracterization of the other side’s agenda and
> motives
> > will not get us there ever.
> >
> >
> > yours,
> >
> > Ansu
> >
> >
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