After
six meetings at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in their quest to form a coalition for
the forthcoming presidential election, the country’s opposition parties are yet
to agree on any solid result.
Yesterday’s
meeting at the Kairaba Beach Hotel did not, yet again, produce any solid
result, as the opposition representatives re-scheduled the meeting until Friday
14 October, at 4pm.
Speaking
to journalists, Alhagie S. Darboe, representing the United Democratic Party
(UDP), said for them to get their party executives informed to sign the agreement
was “difficult”, as this was due to the tour they embarked on.
“I,
therefore, requested the talks to be adjourned till a later date, when all the
party leaders will be present, and in that way we will finally come out with
something agreeable and solid for all of the opposition parties,” he said.
Omar
Jallow (OJ) of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), who was so furious about
the adjournment of the meeting, said: “Today the world is waiting for us and,
if we did not agree today, what are we going to say to people who are waiting
and watching us?”
He
said: “I will leave this room today as a very sad man, because what I cannot
understand is that on Sunday we all agreed on something, and we said today that
thing will be unveiled. So what has happened, and why we cannot agree today?”
Representatives
of other opposition parties at the talks expressed similar sentiments.
