Rambo’s defection to the APRC has created a political buzz, and has given the online
newspaper, radio, political activist and so called pundits the material to justify,
pontificate, and ultimately the political orgasm that they have come to like.

It is important to put this defection in its proper context, and it would be unfortunate if we
see this as an opportunity to settle political differences or another opportunity to lash
out to the opposition in the Gambia. Rambo’s defection is nothing more than the worst
tendencies- character flaw very prevalent among Gambians and other countries as well.

Let me very clear… Rambo’s defection has nothing to do with the UDP leadership or
lack thereof, or even the challenges we face in bringing the opposition parties together.
Rambo defected because of his own selfish interest, and really a clear manifestation of
not having core beliefs, or to the principles that UDP touted and our continuous struggle
to bring democracy and the rule of law to the Gambia.

I am in no position to judge Rambo the man – I do not know him personally, but based on this very actions and the very
things he just uttered few months ago, I can only deduce that he has either made a serious political miscalculation or he
is nothing more than an opportunist. It is evident that Rambo became a household name because of the UDP, he is
really a nobody in the big scheme of things and I seriously doubt that he has a monopoly in delivering the Bakau vote.
In fact by the time we go the polls; the average voter in Bakau will not be walking into the voting booth and making a
decision based on Rambo’s defection. In the UDP party, Rambo was a youth leader and was no doubt a rising star
within the party that was because truth was on his side and he had the freedom and liberty to speak his mind. Now, he
is in a party that there is only one star and speaking your mind is not the norm, and he will be in competition with a
whole bunch of ass kissers, and watch for the elbows and political jockeying. Just ask Waa Juwara – the man has
become a prisoner and has not been himself for years, always watching what he says and the political consideration
and implication from the prison walls of the APRC.

Clearly, the defection gives the APRC a week or two of political propaganda and granted a temporary setback to the
opposition as a whole as it relates to their chances in 2011. A setback indeed for the opposition – a very temporal one
for that matter, but the winning strategy is still alive: Gambians are looking and waiting for an alliance so that they can
vote against Jammeh. Everyone has this belief, including Jammeh and the APRC, any kind of a coalition will pose a
serious threat to their re-election chances in 2011. For me, I continue to believe that this election will never be won
based on party politics or personalities, but the creation of an arrangement of any kind for Gambians to settle their
score against Jammeh and the APRC. To the UDP and the entire opposition party: the obsession of the APRC
leadership with continuing effort to lure people to the ApRC and make it a headline news in all their news media does
not match their rhetoric that the opposition is dead. They are fully aware of their vulnerability –the silence majority that
they have lost over the years, and the possibility that they will very well vote for an opposition that they believe can
defeat Jammeh. If we find a way to bring the leaders of the opposition: Ousainou Darbo (UDP), Halifa Sallah &
Sedia Jatta (PDOIS), Hamat Bah (NRP) and Omar Amadou Jallow (PPP), on the same political platform in
every village, town and hamlet in the Gambia, and in a very clear language tell the Gambian people what
Jammeh has done to the country and throw everything at him including the kitchen sink, Jammeh and the
APRC will be in big trouble. And for Rambo and opportunist like WAA Juwara, they will really regret why they sell their
soul to the devil. In conclusion, we will continue to see in their news media a whole lot of nobodys been paraded as
opposition supporters defecting to the APRC because they really do not have the message for the Gambian people that
will take them to the pools to re-elect Jammeh. We still have a chance.

Thank you

Musa Jeng


--
Surah- Ar-Rum 30-22
"And among His signs is the creation of heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. Verily, in that are indeed signs for men of sound knowledge." Qu'ran

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