I haven't read through your long tirades, but you might  as well accept the 
uncompromising  truth that Halifa has been,  and is now in the enviable 
position of shaping Gambia's political evolution,  once again.
 
    There is no Gambian politican whose impact has so  fundamentally changed 
the dynamics in our political culture; and has nurtured a  generation of well 
oriented Gambians, politically conscious, independent-minded,  and who are 
poised to be the progressive leaders of the future than in the  person of Halifa 
Sallah. 
 
     Halifa's undisputable role in the Gambia's  political evolution is not 
an accident. It is deliberate, constructive and  objective. It is not 
transient; it is not glorifying and it is not  sanctimonous. It is a deliberate effort 
to raise the awareness of a people; a  conscious effort to shape the destiny 
of a nation, and an unwavering  commitment to see the birth of a nation whose 
people are dignified and proud,  and are the architects of their own destiny. 
 
    This has been and is the mission that has guided  Halifa's profound 
intellect, his shrewd political disposition, his acute  sense of history and his 
mastery of the dialectics of our  contemporary Gambian politics. 
 
    It is therefore not surprising, that this person who is  in the center of 
the Gambia's political evolution; this person who can  dictate the course of 
events in our political history and who has the ability to  transform the 
whole political landscape, is now the subject of the most  vile and vicious 
disparaging of his character all because he stands in  the way of people who 
desperately wants their candidate to be president. 
 
   Being so incline in their subjectivity, and with the  desire to 
rationalize their contempt for his  being, all sorts of  unfounded claims has been 
brought against him. Halifa has in no uncertain terms,  justify the rationalization 
behind his support of the 1996 constitution. It was  better to have a country 
with a constitution even if it was deficient in certain  respects, than to 
have a country with no constitution and govern by  decrees. 
 
   It is simplistic to assume that because the country is  predominantly a 
certain ethic group, therefore most, if not all of that ethnic  group, will 
support a political party of that constituency. 
 
  I  hope the majority of the Gambian people will be receptive to  ideas that 
will make the country stable and prosperous; will support the  candidature of 
people who are knowledgable, sincere and have the best interest  of the 
country at heart. 
 
     Rene     
  

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