Comrade Jassey-Conteh

If we are going by history, then certainly come
October 19, The Gambia will either see Ousainou Darboe
being official declared as winner of the Presidential
Elections or that the IEC makes a declaration that a
second round for the Presidential Election has to be
held. This is my prediction on the whole issue, I
definitely can`t see Yahya getting 50% or more of the
total votes cast. Remember, what happen in Senegal and
Ghana respectively, during the first round the
incumbent was unable to secure 50% of the votes cast.
I really fancy this happening in October 18.  Lets
therefore not panic about the whole, not all is lost.


It is advisable that we take faith with what we have
at the moment and stop this business of digging old
wounds.

Until then lets keep our heads down and wish all our
leaders the best of luck.

Come October 2001, Gambia must be free as Yahya must
go.

Have a wonderful day.

Sanusi.




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<[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Opposition
Leaders:
>
> If history serves us well, you will be repeating the
> same
> historical trends that opposition parties had
> exhibited
> in Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya and other African
> countries.
> You have failed to unite, and as a result, Jammeh
> will
> win the presidential election slated in October.  As
> part
> of the opposition, I have decided that your failure
> to
> seek the interest of the Gambia will be a
> regrettable
> history on your parts.  Though we all want to be
> presidents
> of the Gambia, we can have only one opposition
> presidential
> candidate.
>
> Please read below repeated messages that I will be
> sending
> daily as a reminder that our country's interest is
> above
> those who aspire for a free Gambia.  We need a true
> alliance.
>
> July 22, 1994 marked the day our country was
> transformed
> into a nation of captives by the military, led by
> yahya
> jammeh.  Within the last seven years, The Gambia
> went
> through a system that no Gambian should be proud of.
>  A
> police state in The Gambian has set the clock back
> for our
> country's integration in global economics and other
> essentials
> of political development.  A military dictatorship
> politicized
> its ignorance and lack of respect with unsound and
> unprudent
> economic decisions. Jammeh has indeed preyed on the
> selfish
> who abandoned their principles and seeked
> opportunistic tendencies
> in their thirsts for power.
>
> Some Gambians during the early stages of the coup
> embraced this
> new revolution without quantifying the relative
> danger that a
> military would exhibit on its citizens.  In these
> periods of
> ignorance and lack of understanding with the
> realities of political
> judgment, many became amazed with the new leader's
> apparent
> policies of developments without fully understanding
> the value
> of quality over quantity.  Some even became
> fanatical in believing
> that jammeh had embarked on democratic principles
> for the overall
> benefit of The Gambian society.  What some failed to
> understand was that
> poliical intimidation and manipulative dictatorial
> style of the
> APRC government circumvented some regrettable
> incidents in our
> country's history.
>
> In evaluating the process of democracy and the full
> understanding
> of fair-dealing, equity and fairness, we in the
> opposition must
> clearly define our intended purpose in a profound
> objective sentiment.
> We must understand that the cries of Halifah, Sidia
> and Hamat are
> vital in our struggle.  We must understand that
> those who have spoken
> loud and clear cannot and should not be left behind
> because of minor
> political differences.  PDOIS, whether or not
> subscribes to socialism,
> is so minor a principle that its intellectual
> advocacy should be given
> consideration.
>
> Politics in reality should be interpreted on a
> notion of educating
> the electorate as to principles and ideas
> promulgated by a political
> party.  Though this sound judgment may be opposed by
> some, we must
> understand that at this critical moment of our
> struggle, our priority
> is to flush out yahya jammeh and the APRC.  It was
> really frightening
> that PDOIS was not invited to the coalition meeting.
>  It is also
> disturbing after hearing from Hon. Hamat Bah, we
> must reconvene to map
> out strategies in our struggle to defeat the APRC.
>
> PDOIS' position in nominating a woman caretaker for
> a short period of
> time should be studied at face value.  As long as we
> have NCP, NRP and
> PDOIS away from the coalition, we will fail to
> achieve our main purpose
> of setting The Gambia back on the democratic trend.
> It is of no value
> to blame each other for our failure in uniting the
> whole opposition.  We
> must swallow our pride and take a rich Gambian
> culture in extending
> an olive branch to each other.  We cannot let our
> emotions guide us at
> this critical moment of our struggle.
>
> I say to those that I disagree in principle, we have
> engaged in
> intellectual talk and no action.  A house without a
> foundation will
> never stand.  Will we invest in a bank while going
> in, some are taking
> their money out?  Will we run in front of a fast
> moving car?  Will we
> wait till the eleventh hour to study for a major
> examination?  "Rome
> was not built in a day, but it was destroyed in a
> single day."  Yahya
> jammeh has indeed destroyed The Gambia in a single
> day.
>
> My position is based on ethical values that serve as
> preambles in my
> consideration of life's substance. It is disburbing
> to read about the
> commencement of president campaigns individually by
> the NCP, NRP,
> PDOIS and UDP/PPP/Assan Musa coalition.  I ask, why
> rock the boat?  In
> a more realistic review of the strength of the
> opposition parties, I
> am afraid to pinpoint that we will not win come
> October as long as we
> have a divided opposition.  The reality of this
> charaterization is
> that the entire opposition is helping yahya jammeh
> and the APRC government.
> It is uncompromising for one alliance to indicate
> that its doors are
> open to the rest of the opposition.  This is not the
> rule of the game.
> A leader must have the wisdom and desire to evaluate
> political decisions
> base on fact and logic, especially at a time when
> the opposition cannot
> afford to divide votes.
>
> A revolution is reactionary in nature.  Since the
> coup yahya jammeh has
> fallen out with most of his former comrades.  It
> will be frightening to
> allow yahya jammeh to run The Gambia for another
> five years.  Why then
> should we allow such a frightening thing happen?  If
> this evaluation is
> indeed true, why then are we dividing our ultimate
> desire of freeing
> The Gambia?
>
> As children of God, we must seek the truth for a
> return to civility
> and understanding in The Gambia.  A day will come
> when we the citizens
> of The Gambia, together with our desire to seek the
> interest of our
> country, will be saying in loud and clearer voices:
> "thank God we are
> free at last."   We can only do this through equity,
> fair-dealing and
> truth.  We must be sincere in our undertakings.  We
> must evaluate our
> policies on objective interpretations that will
> provide us reasonable
> assurance in our desire for a free Gambia.  This I
> believe, will be left
> with the new generation of Gambian politicians whose
> advocacy will be
> a reminder of true reconciliation.  After our
> defeat, some of us will
> be researching collectively of the need to take this
> journey in freeing
> The Gambia.  We cannot and should not be miles away
> and
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