Now Joof and his paymaster, Jammeh, have really gone bonkers. Fancy now
spurrious charges/rulings by a kangaroo court that is illegal - by all sense
of definition of that word - suffices to legally rule out Mr Darbo as the
Alliance's presidential candidate. Has the APRC leadership really thought
through the logical implications of what they are trying to hatch here? Have
they considered the political impasse that will ensue when they try to stymie
the Gambian people's peaceful and polite efforts - through democratic means -
to ask Jammeh to go? Any astute political observer would not fail to
recognise the potentiality of Joof's declaration or veiled threat to the
Alliance to draw Gambia into the political territory of violence and
uncertainty. To avert such a scenario, the goofballs "running" our country
should stop using and or invoking these legalese subversions as a masquerade
to force through their illegal political agenda.

The APRC, still reeling from the after-effects of the Alliance's Brikama
rally, know fully well that if they don't go about subversively meddling with
the electoral process, their days are definitely numbered; and the countdown
may have well started last Sunday in Brikama. So they decided to get their
consiglieri -  i.e., a mafiosi legal adviser to make underhand tactics look
legal and normal - Joof to get to work on possible means to legally rule out
the Alliance's endorsed candidature of Mr Darbo. They are in for a rude shock
if they imagine they can subvert the Alliance's legitimate endorsement
candidature of Mr Darbo. For all that it is worth, if the APRC presses ahead
with this legalese sleight of hand, the first consequence would be a complete
disarray of the presidential elections; and from there, things can only go
downhill. I hope Joof was honest enough to tell that to his paymaster. There
are no ifs, buts and maybes here: any legalese subversion that seeks to
undermine the Alliance's legitimate democratic pursuits, will result to a
complete political disengagement and in extension political choas. We are
talking about a total boycott of the elections if the APRC goes ahead with
its underhand tactics. There is no middle course here.

As far as things go with the Alliance, i strongly recommend that this new
legalese nonsense from the APRC be given the contempt it deserves. This is
nothing but a legalese sleight of hand the APRC intends to invoke when the
going gets tough vis-a-vis the current presidential elections. The Alliance
ought to out come with a strong condemnation of this current legalese sleight
of hand from the APRC and say that under no cirmcumstances would this illegal
regime dictate to them how they pursue their inviolable democratic freedoms.
It must be made unequivocally clear that no executive meddling of the current
electoral process would be tolerated. The Alliance should never dither when
the APRC illegally try -  through its executive powers - to subvert the
political process: it must resolutely condemn such actions and or threats and
appropriately deal with them. Which takes me to the question: since was Joof
as AG empowered to police who is eligible and ineligible to stand for
elective office in the Gambia? I thought their toilet paper constitution has
divested those powers away from the executive and they reside with the IEC?
Is Joof doing his homework these days? Signs of a man losing his grip?

 Knowing fully that their goofball of a candidate - Jammeh - is going down
come October, the APRC resorts to these underhand political shenanigans to
subvert the wishes of the Gambian peoples. The Gambian peoples would under no
circumstances acquiesce to these underhand tactics; these illegal tactics
shall be met headlong with the contempt they deserve from the Gambian
peoples. And if the goofballs don't get it this time around, it won't be just
a case of people merely bewailing corrupt electoral shenanigans; but marching
all the way to State House. That is a warning Jammeh and his acolytes ought
to heed. If they think for a minute that they can bully the Gambian peoples
into submitting to their underhand tactics and bullying as they did in 1996,
they are in for a rude shock in October. This time around, it is a totally
different ball game. The gloves are off!

Hamjatta Kanteh

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