In a message dated 11/3/2002 6:26:57 PM Greenwich Standard Time,
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> UDP, interestingly is a party of which it can be claimed that both its
> coming into being and its pallid demise are important for the evolution of
> the Gambian polity.
> The class of politicians whose parties were banned following the '94 coup
> could not simply wither away by decree. From PPP and NCP they all needed to
> oppose the APRC to justify their own identities as politicians in the first
> place. Even when the brutal facts of oppositional politics dawned on them,
> it felt legitimate to oppose for the sake of opposition.
> That wobbly position could not possibly be maintained after the failure of
> the coalition and the subsequent victory of the APRC. Issue-oriented
> allegiance in politics, however bogus, must eventually dictate the
> composition of herds and flocks even such leanings are driven by instinct.
> It is simply impossible for former PPP and NCP members to remain faithful
> in a marriage of convenience forever.
>

Well said Momodou Sidibeh.

Jabou Joh

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