UDP/UK'S PRESS RELEASE TO HALIFA SALLAH IS MALICIOUS

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By Badou Samba

I am calling on Lawyer Darboe to resign. It is imperative to note that you can't nail marmalade against the wall.Time have changed and self proclaimed UDP/UK can't hold Gambians or  sincere UDP Supporters and PDOIS at ransom.It is entirely inexcusable , however , to try to combine the unready hand with the  unbridled tongue. You will deny, counter and accused me PDOIS sympathizer,and creating "havoc". However, the truth must be said and it will always prevail.It is highly desirable that a leader of opinion in a democracy should be able to state his views clearly and convincingly. This is what brought President Obama to the helm of  power despite the rocky nature / vicinity he found himself.

Political maturity, discipline and principle cannot be possessed out of contention .This is why is equally important for party members to make a responsible and convincing press release to the people. This is why there is also a need for political parties to make alternatives with remedies in order to make a damage control system in place. IN that note there must be a committee that will handle and review issues before immediate and hasty decisions are made by individuals, family members or "Tereh Kaffoo".  However, this cannot be done by venting anger, insult or personal attack against those who do not ascribed to their individual or collective thoughts and beliefs. This type of political masquerading has become a common place for us since lifting the ban on political parties in 1996. There is no place for malarkey in Gambian politic comes 2011. How on earth a press release of  a single party will come from a bunch of self proclaimed individuals
abroad? Don't you think you are doing more harm to the image of the party by tell Gambians how disintegrated UDP is? You need to think outside the box. I would not hide if I sport PDOIS because my support to the UDP for the past 16 consecutive years , was not something unpronounced. I am heartsick over the delay, blundering, the fatuous ; and self complacent inefficiency and the effort to substitute the glittering rhetoric for action.  This is why I am here to regulate their ferocious scramble in which greed and cunning looms high to reap the largest and most genuine opposition coalition ever established in the Gambia (NADD). The press Release is a simple farce and it sounds so mallicious that it does not reflect a true and genuine Gambian thought.It sounds more Utopian than Gambian.                                     

The reason why I made a swift response to the UDP/UK's press release is because it is taking us in retrospect and will hindered  the efforts of genuine Gambians who are working ostensibly  to make our home land bacon of  democracy. This will also exacerbate the division amongst the opposition parties. By and large, UPD in particular have better things to take care of than this frivolous attacks which have no place in this 21 Century . More so the signing of the MOU of NADD was an "error in the making" committed by UDP. So they cannot hold Halifa or any body accountable for that. It is time to tell and present fact with evidences. If one does not state the fact; and you ignore it, double standard and hypocrisy will obviously take a center stage. Thereby the dramatist or political bickering will grow out of proportion. These are the devices paid by the vice to the virtue through the works of internecine characters----- UDP is entirely responsible for anything that happened in NADD, in 2006 period. I can say without any wobbling, UDP holy agreed and append their signature without any persuasion or coerce.

I will give an eerie account of the inexcusable errors made by UDP in numerous occasions since the hay days of  1996. These would have been corrected before actions are taking and appending their signature on it. This leaves one with a question that does UDP really has an organized structure and principles to follow? I vehemently believed that the UDP/ UK are Johnny just come into the platform, you welcome on board. The catharsis that faced and still facing UDP as a party since its inception is that they act on individual advice that trickles down to family members. This has caused and still causing a prosaic effect to dissuade true and sincere UDP members who foresee the interest of the Gambia . This type of political meandering has shrunk the image; and popularity of the party and above all left the party in a casket .It  has caused an irreparable damage to the image of the party as a whole. The proponents of UDP/UK must understand that there were many like them but where are they? You hardly hear from them today, why?
The following are the typical examples where, a prominent party like UDP  has failed Gambians woefully,  through errors that they do not want to admit instead shifting blames:

  In 1995 REFERENDUM, PDOIS told Gambians is better to vote and have a constitution than a military decree but other oppositions in their campaign told voters PDOIS support and promotes APRC's ideas. They were proven dead wrong because this is why today one can go to court and defend himself  despite the kangaroo courts. To resonate this in conjunctions to the 1997 constitution, Lawyer Dorboe was saved by the same constitution from going to prison when there was a class between UDP and APRC in Basse .Where Mr. Njie , APRC driver was killed. Imagine if told there was no constitution in place. There will be a macabre, where Daniel will come to Judgement.
 Darboe said he regrets boycotting 2002 National election .Members will bear me witness that the idea of boycotting came from Wajuwara. You see how misleading an individual decisions and advice can be resulted to. PDOIS was also blamed for their participation in that election.
 In 2006 Darboe appends his signature on the MOU of NADD and pull out with reason that he was persuaded to sign it. Who persuaded him to sign it? Before it was some UDP branch members in the US who were attacking Halifa and now new faces of political protagonists from UDP/UK squarely apportioned the blamed on PDOIS / Halifa .The truth will always prevail and politicians will come and go but the fact of records will be indelibly mark on the walls of history for the purpose of posterity. Rhetorically, where are the proactive groups like UDP/ US branch? Are they functional or dead? This UDP/US branch was so powerful that it has an endemic effect that scared president Jammeh to dead. Why Darboe should allow such political fragmentation? Is he aware of what is going on and the colossal effects it is going to have on the party?
 We have also witnessed here the verbatim of a UN document by UDP and their alliance with NRP/GPDP in 2006.  They used the said document as a party manifesto. This was a treasonable offense, plagiarism, especially in this academic world.