Pandemonium Emerges As GPU Holds Congress, Elects New Executive

After several months of postponement, the Gambia Press Union – the umbrella body for journalism in The Gambia – at long last went to the poll on 26 June amid a controversial political firmament to elect a new executive that will maneuver the affairs of the union for the next three years.
But as the union heads to poll, claims and counter-claims surfaced about the position of the president. In a situation like that day, one can stand and say ‘the media is a hotbed for political propaganda’. However, as ‘result- oriented journalists’ of this small and neo-liberal country, the matter was not allowed to dwindle or shake the membership of the union. “It is one of the best congresses I have ever seen and attended,” says one senior journalist. The media is changing the world, and this is why MEDIAREVOLUTION matters in a society where information is kept close to ones chest. People nowadays tend to cling to power in the wake of political turmoil fomented by ideological cants that may rivalry among voters. However some lack the sparkle and sophistication to rally the vote they need, and this has made the voters to question some of the candidates about their appetite for politics.
The polls went peaceful and free from rigging, but what will be the fate of the union in the next three years? No one knows!! What is paramount to note, is the fact that ‘what brought together the union is more powerful than what may fall-off it’. In order words ‘It is the past that brought all unionists together, but let them [the unionists] not allow the past to take them to the past.’
Elections were held and winners emerged, not in a form of gerontocracy, but liberal democracy- where majority carries the vote. In unions like the GPU, which has to cope with rapid metamorphose, the decreased faculties of the aged can potentially be a handicap in providing effective leadership. This is why gerontocracy would have been a disaster if the GPU should have gone by it.