It is no tough quiz to pose the question: "Is Gambia a failed democracy?" A high court judge described the constitution of The Gambia as a "beautiful piece of legislation," considering the power vested in the people as the source of power of all organs of government.

The beauty of this constitution has not been valued – it is butchered, violated and now the long concealed plans to make president Jammeh hit the air waves. Heeeey!!! This plan of king crowning is no longer a street talk.

Gambia’s only television station GRTS has on Saturday featured the meeting on the extending of death sentence – from murder and treason to offences of drugs and human trafficking at the state house in Banjul where the desire to crown Jammeh king was made public.

The APRC National Assembly members, governors, chiefs, ministers, religious leaders and party loyalists in attendance did not hide their king making agenda.

This king making agenda has for a long time been discussed in safe corners but it is now general knowledge that it is not a mere speculation as viewers of GRTS have seen the president present when the NBR governor Edward Seckan explained that he was approached by chiefs to make President Jammeh king and they agreed. The National Assembly member for Serrekunda East and majority leader Fabakary Tombong Jatta repeated that secret balloting is the highest form of hypocrisy, as he earlier mentioned at the National Assembly outreach forum at Paradise Suites at Kololi.

President Jammeh himself said at the meting that most of the conflicts are by products of elections. He cited the situation in Guinea Conakry as an example, saying that tribalism there has reached a stage that the Malinke tribe dares not go to the regions of the Fula tribe vise versa.

It is universally accepted that election is a conflict resolution mechanism and giving it a negative description is in itself undemocratic. People can only have confidence that they can change a government peacefully if there are elections. Gambians’ response to this call of making President Jammeh king will tell the whole world what kind of citizens we have and which type of future they are carving for generations yet unborn.

After condemning the Jawara government for perpetuating itself in power, many Gambians thought it right to justify the 22nd July takeover. This was in fact one of the factors why Jammeh was somehow seen as a revolutionary by some of his admirers during the transition period. But this has not followed anything less than what the former president has done. The Jawara government has been criticised for buying expensive Benz vehicles and now Jammeh bought Hummers. Jawara was criticised for staying in power for about three decades and now there is campaign going on to make Jammeh a king. Let right thinking people pass their independent judgment.

The success of this ongoing kingdom building process through the no election campaign will only make Gambians the most self betrayed species of the earth.

Gambians, especially young people and women should not allow to be squeezed like lemons and thrown away.