Suntou, You stated: "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."
The above is your own spin on UDP-UK's statement attributing blame for the loss of Hamat Bah's seat in the bye-elections on Halifa; Unfortunately I do not share it. The use of the word "clandestine" suggests to me that UDP-UK meant that Halifa acted with improper motives. I also have access to a dictionary.
In registering NADD as a political party, Halifa neither acted untransparently nor improperly. You ought to also bear in mind that the ultimate Court's verdict that led to the bye-elections was neither absolute nor inevitable. The call could have gone either way.
You also wrote:
"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."
You did not apparently try to 'remember carefully' but if you did, I urge you to try to remember even more carefully. I always refuse as a matter of principle to be publicly drawn into what you described as "a bitter insult contest over personality". Indeed I admit notoriety for sometimes getting into highly heated arguements with a person such as yourself, Bunama Cham (your other probable Pen-name), Lawyer Yanks Dabo and a few others over political issues or personalities but never had I engaged in an 'insult contest' either on this forum or others.' I was not brought up to misbehave in public. In my own private domain, I could. You therefore owe me an apology. By the way, I am hereby retracting my earlier apology to you; you did not deserve an apology because after all as the Co-ordinator of UDP-UK, you are the key architect for the maligning of Halifa
in your organisation's so-called response. Congrats! I notice that you share the same political job title with Halifa Sallah; or did he resign his NADD position?
When are you releasing the dossier? Please note that a dodgy dossier led to a big war.
Bailo
--- 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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