--- 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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