Wednesday, 2 November 2016

What's In It For The Electorate? What Should We Demand from the political class?

The color palette and the canvas are an artist tool kit for a breath taking marvel that galleries and museums fight to exhibit. The inspiration of the artist is translated in a luminescent display of color and graphics. Equally, the tool kit of a politician is displayed in the coherence of his/her socioeconomic programmes and judicial interventions for the fostering of a harmonious society.

Unfortunately in the Gambia, the pundits and electorate have been consumed with the personalities of the candidates rather than the content of their programmes. Hope is a lifeline to no where and in recent times, Gambians have been banking their hopes on a new Gambia but this hope is not underpinned by any tactical or strategic planning that can yield the desired outcome. Therefore our hope has culminated into a mirage in a desolate desert. This brings me to the limited political sophistication of the Gambian and our narrowly defined interest that blurs our vision to see the bigger picture. An alliance of convenience will be short lived as it lacks conviction and a genuine reason d'etre for its formation. The more I peruse through the pages of Gambian social media, the more I longed for a New Gambian whose political horizon transcends tribe and region. I yearn for a new Gambian who has a score card to judge the efficacy of a political aspirant. Personally, I am in search of a candidate that can galvanize our resolve to weave a new Gambia that is socially cohesive and at peace with itself. Yes I mean peace because peace is just not the absence of war but a thriving environment that promotes the human ideal of progress, equality and dignity. My score card will focus on education, health, agriculture and sustainable economic and infrastructural development.


My vote may be trivial in the grand scheme of things but I will only discharge my civic duty if I see a candidate befitting to my espoused ideals. Lets stop talking about the candidates and worry about what they can deliver for us. That's what the Gambia needs not political jockeying for relevance. Come on lets not allow ourselves to pimped by our politicians. We are not prostitutes but we surely behave like them as we bicker over issues of no significance to our bottom line as Gambian electorates. Good evening from the Gambia to all and we are now at T minus 29 days so lets realign our national priorities to show the politicians where power lies.


In a way Gambians have hinted their desires to the politicians but they refused to take heed as they see us as tools of their trade. This fallacy has to change. We are the masters of the political class so we must not be allowed to be hoodwinked by none of them. The broad consensus for the new Gambian is to usher a new political dispensation that will efface fear and ill will amongst us. We are one family that harbor ecades old ano.osity borne out of our social construct of years past. Reprisal and hatred will not take us far so lets get our house in other and behave like one people under God.

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