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Or may be the guy wants something from the Jammeh regime!!?? God!!!! What 
hatred and prejudice!!

Alhaji
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jawo abdoulie" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: NAAD RESPONSE TO NRP/UDP ALLIANCE


> Mr Kujabi,
>
>  Incontestably and most unfortunately, such a vocabulary of prejudice and 
> unsubstantiated political giddiness is illogicality and myopic-ity of the 
> highest order in the science of governance in the 21st century.
>
>  It certainly tantamount to a melancholic claptrap style of seeing the sun 
> in broad day light and nonetheless shouting between the earth and the 
> skies that it is the moon. Consequently, Mr Kujabi, you must have galore 
> time under your command for such political simplicity...
>
>  Abdoulie Jawo
>
>
> "Pa.Saikou Kujabi" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>  Halifa Sallah is back again working for Yaya Jammeh .
> Readers, it should not be a surprise for anyone who
> knows Halifa Sallah to see him going to work for Yaya
> Jammeh and the APRC regime one more time. I have
> always said it in many internet forums that Halifa
> Sallah is as arrogant, selfish,stained, deceptive as
> Yaya Jammeh.
>
> Frankly I was astonished to read Halifa Sallah's
> letter to NRP/UDP Alliance repeating himself over and
> over again without making any point. Most people
> would recall I have always challenged Halifa on this
> particular forum about his role in installing Yaya
> Jamme. He never responded to those facts that I
> presented until on or about May 20, 2006 when he
> attempted to justify NAAD's humilliating performance
> in the recent Kombo East by-elections. In that
> irresponsible and self deceiving statement, Halifa,
> just as typical of him, went on hiffing and hoffing
> again, contradicting himself and exposing his
> arrogance and insensitivity about the political wishes
> of the Gambian opposition electorates. Halifa claimed
> that the NAAD candidate was from Pirang Village, that
> NAAD was frequently seen in that by-election campaign
> than UDP and APRC parties,that NAAD suffered most from
> the APRC vote buying, that there was no basis for
> measuring of gaining or losing popularity in that
> election, and that there was someone in the United
> Sates who sent money to the people of Kafuta to
> discourage them from voting for NAAD, among many other
> deceptive claims. I did not have time to respond on
> time to these irresponsible statements aimed at
> keeping his NAAD sponsors in the United Staes and
> elsewhere.
>
> First and foremost, Halifa did not even know that the
> NAAD candidate (Lamin Touray) is not from Pirang, but
> Berending Village.
>
> Secondly, I truely wonder if there are sound minded
> supporters of NAAD? I would have expected some
> reasonable person to quickly ask Halifa why NAAD
> performed so badly in an election that his party was
> "more visible, more involved with the grass roots, and
> above all as Halifa claimed, "their candidate was more
> confortable explaining NAAD's programs than UDP".
>
> Third, as far as UDP is concerned, we did not have any
> evidence to suggest that APRC had engaged in vote
> buying. Halifa did not present any evidence including
> ther number of votes APRC bought from potential NAAD
> voters. I hope this article will lead us to having
> those facts presented on this forum.
>
>
> Fourth, Halifa fooled himself and of course those
> blind followers by arguing that the by-election was
> not the basis for measuring gaining or losing
> popularity. Halifa and his comrades in The Gambia,
> and of course SINK THE GAMBIA PROJECT(SAVE THE GAMBIA
> PROJECT)based in the United States have painted a
> false picture to the people in the diaspora that NAAD
> is the popular party in the Gambia, and that it has
> the backing of most if not all oppostion supporters.
> Unfortunately, Halifa and his comrades' persistent
> lies did not save them from the hummilliation NAAD
> suffered when the Kombo East by-election results were
> announced. If politics is not about measuring
> popularity I don't know what it is about.
>
> Fifth, Halifa's allegation that someone in the United
> States sent money to discourage Kafutarians from
> voting for NAAD is as baselss and irresponsible as his
> allegations have always been. As far as I know, there
> was no Kafutarian in the United States or elsewhere
> who had sent money directly to Kafuta to induce
> voters. I am from Kafuta and Halifa very well knows
> that. Therefore, I will never hesitate to set the
> records straight here. The votes that were counted
> for NAAD as in most all the polling stations were
> Lamin Touray votes and not NAAD as a party.
> Kafutarians in particular, were receiving mixed
> message before they got the facts. There were others
> who did not change their positions even after they
> came to know the truth that UDP had nothing to do with
> NAAD. The Lamin Touray campaingn introduced
> themselves in the name of UDP and in many of his
> supporters in Kafuta used my own namke to attract
> voters. I personally had high regards for Lamin
> Touray for many reasons, but most importantly as a
> citizen of The Gambia, and Kombo East District. You
> better be adviced that we in the Kombo East are
> closely related just as in all parts of The The
> Gambia. NAAD can only be remembered for being the
> only custodian of the SPOILER VOTES that effectively
> helped APRC narrowly carried seat in the Kombo East
> by-election. I would like assure Halifa that NAAD's
> two humdred votes in Kafuta has long been shattered.
>
> I have repeatedly reminded Gambia-L readers about the
> role Halifa played in installing Yaya Jammeh. When
> the military overthrew the Jawara regime, they
> immediately put a ban on all politica parties and
> persons with the exception of PDOIS, Halifa Sallah,
> Sedia Jatta and Sam Sarr. During the entire military
> two year transition period, Halifa was the only
> politician who had openly and aggressively promoted
> the AFPRC programs. I argued several times in this
> forum that had Halifa's arrogance and selfishness did
> not gripped him, the Draft Constitution as bad as it
> was, would not have been passed through his arrogant
> and selfishness campaign. Those fair minded readers
> of my contributions would recall all the facts I
> presented about Halifa's deeds. Halifa aggressively
> campaigned for the adoption of the badly diluted and
> ommitted Draft Constitution even before it was debated
> on. He was the only politician who occupied The
> Gambian air waves through radio one FM, in addition to
> the thousands of audio cassettes that he made and sent
> across the country urging Gambians to accept the draft
> constitution by voting "YES" in the 1996 Referrendum.
> The original Draft Constitution seeked not only for a
> two five-year term limit for the presidency,it also
> seeked for a fourty-year age limit. But the diluted
> draft that Halifa promoted did not contain these most
> important clauses.
>
> Lovers of The Gambia and truth, HOW CAN WE EXCUSE
> HALIFA AND HOLD YAYA JAMMEH RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MESS
> IN THE GAMBIA?
> Halifa is equally responsible for the predicament we
> find ourselves in today. Halifa's response to NRP/UDP
> proposal was embarrshing and futher exposed his total
> insensitivity about the common saying that "what goes
> arround comes arround". When Halifa was campaigning
> for AFPRC, Ousainou Darboe and UDP were not dreamt of.
> PPP was the enemy then. Halifa and PDOIS thought
> that the coup de tat was a blessing for a PDOIS rule
> in The Gambia. You must remember that by that time
> PDOIS was already fifteen years old, repeating the
> same unconnected idiology which as Waa Juwara put it "
> they don't understand themselves". I can only
> conclude that Halifa is an arrogant, selfish and slow
> to read the lips of The Gambian people. Imagine, it
> took Halifa ten years to confess that any draft
> constitution should be debated on by the constituents
> first bebore they adopts it in a referrendum. Now,
> will any honest NAAD supporter kindly urge Halifa "
> the greatest mind in The Gambia" to issue an appology
> statement to the people of The Gambia for the mess he
> put us in. If the electorates could successfully force
> Yaya Jammeh to cut the military transition period from
> four years to two, which sane mind on earth would not
> belief that we could have had a debate on this present
> tailor-made constitution that was clearly intended to
> suit Jammeh alone. If the electorates had the chance
> to debate the contitution, you would not have been
> pointing your wrong fingers at Ousainou Darboe in your
> desparate bid to make him a scape goat for Halifa and
> Yaya Jammeh's mess. It is absolute nonsense for
> Halifa to suggest now, ten years after his current
> constitution served its purpose that any draft
> constitution should be brought before The Gambian
> people for ratification. Halifa is the last person to
> understand that, and I we could understand why.
>
> I read many irrational comments on this and other
> forums about Ousainou Darboe and Hamat Bah as though
> they are the only obstacle to Halifa presidency. Some
> of you labelled Ousainou and Hamat as two power hungry
> politicians who would do evry thing to rule The
> Gambia. I hope you will not argue that Halifa was
> preparing for a PDOIS rule immediately after the AFPRC
> two year transition. It was only when that failed, he
> eyed for majority leader position in the National
> Assembly which he eventually snatched from Sedia who
> was already serving a second term, now in his third
> term in the House. We asked Halifa to coordinate the
> opposition alliance, but to most people's surprise, he
> ended up being the flag bearer. By all accounts
> Halifa and Yaya Jammeh are the same. Yaya also
> succeeded himself from military transition to a so
> called democractic rule.
>
> The executive members of NAAd have found themselves
> held hostage by Halifa's arrogance and selfishness,
> with only him serving as the Spokesman, Party Leader,
> Secretary, you mane it. None of the other so called
> Executive members have any innitaiative to redirect
> NAAd to answer to the call of TRUTH and TIME. I feel
> embarrashed when Halifa says " he answered to the call
> of duty". I wonder whose duty has he answered to?
> Certainly Yaya Jammeh again.
>
> I strongly disagree with Phoday Samateh's views on
> Darboe and Hamat. Phoday, like his fellow Halifa fans
> clearly does not understand what the political
> atmosphere in The Gambia. He charged that Ousainou
> and Hamat joined NAAD to use its ladder to acheive
> their presidential ambitions. Phoday simply cannot
> join the dots. Even one of my close friends who is a
> life time strong PDOIS supporter was the first to
> disagree with his allegations. If there any
> politicians who joined tha Alliance purely to sell
> their unsellable programs they are certainly Halifa,
> Waa Juwara, and OJ. Unfortunately Phoday as in many
> of his stories, even though he refered to them as
> "facts" failed to read the writings on the wall that
> politics is all about popularity, numbers, and
> programs, but most importantly numbers. We all know
> that one has climb the steps of any ladder to reach
> the top, and in the process you are talking about
> numbers here. Ousainou Darboe and Hamat are the only
> opposition politicians with the numbers. Therefore,
> only Ousainou Darboe and Hamat Bah could easily climb
> that ladder. Even the MOU that Halifa and Phoday
> cited as the tool for choosing the NAAD flag bearer
> suits Ousainou and Hamat than Halifa, Waa Juwara, and
> OJ if the selection process were to be exhusted. I do
> respect Phoday's opinion and right to criticise
> Ousainou and Hamat objectively. However Phoday
> claimed that his article was based on facts, but it is
> apparent thatlittle a fact if any at all can one find
> in his very first of the ten articles to come about
> the subject. Lets wait and see.
>
> Yes Hamat Bah was absolutely right that his party(NRP)
> and Ousainou's UDP made a great mistake by agreeing
> share power equally amongst the parties even though
> they are far from being equal. NAAD simply lacks the
> trust of The Gambian people and no amount of
> carrecature of Ousainou and Hamat can turn the Gambian
> electorates against them. Ousainou was the one who
> stood his ground to take Yaya Jammeh head on in 1996
> when Halifa Sallah was still defending Jammeh. The
> new conspirators Halifa rallied now against freedom
> will go down in history for being trators serving the
> interest of Yaya Jammeh once again under the
> leadership of Halifa Sallah. Halifa better know that
> he cannot equate himself to Ousainou
> Darboe. By all standards, Ousainou is not Halifa's
> match, and is about time he prepare face the
> consequences of his treacherous deeds. The results
> will tell the strenght of NAAD come september. If any
> body thinks that NAAD can distract NRP/UDP votes on a
> national scale is just hallucinating.
>
> I have long decided that I will never trust doing
> business with these NAAD traitors. In the open they
> talk against Yaya, but behind the curtain, thay go to
> walk for him. Here comes Halifa again ready to go to
> work for Yaya Jammeh aftre twelve unfortunate years of
> his of his treacherous, and arrogant acts that put us
> in this predicament. How soon he forgot. The
> Gambians today and generations to come will never
> forgive you for your urgly face twelve years ago and
> this present day. We cannot excuse Halifa and hold
> Yaya Jammah responsible for anything. We will
> continue to hold your feet to the fire that you set.
>
> Pa. Saikou Kujabi.
>
> To be continued.
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