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SODELPA's  vengeful hounding of coupist Sitiveni Rabuka will backfire as Mick Beddoes, Waqavonovono et al and Women's Wing claim scalp!

24/4/2014

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POLITICAL MORAL DUPLICITY: How can Sodelpa reject one coupist Rabuka from standing for election and yet the party is taking on another at the election- Bainimarama- legitimizing his treasonous coup!
Suppose Bainimarama wins fair or foul - then what - scream he can't be
Prime Minister because he committed treason in 2006?

PictureTHE FALL GUY: NO WAY
FOR SODELPA!
SO, SITIVENI RABUKA has quit Sodelpa? The truth is he was hounded out of the party for political expediency. The final straw came when Mick Beddoes, who crossed over to Sodelpa, issued a hard-hitting personal statement questioning the immunity that shields Rabuka not only from prosecution but allows him to contest the September election.

But what about skeletons in their own political cupboards. Beddoes is one of a few who has stood up for democracy, human rights, rule of law and media freedom. And yet, on 28 November 2006, he had called upon the Qarase government to placate the Royal Fiji Military Forces by dropping investigations into insubordination on the part of  Frank Bainimarama. "All it is doing is putting a red rag in front of a bull and the bull has 4,000 guns," he told Australia's ABC Radio.

We also have another high-profile Sodelpa spokesman in Dr Tupeni Baba - sooner or later his links with the fugitive conman Peter Foster will resurface during the election campaign. In other words, sacrificing Rabuka will not increase Sodelpa's chances at the polls. If anything, it might backfire on the party including Beddoes, Waqavonovono and others who have been baying for Rabuka's scalp.

His political fate was sealed, and gave fuel to his opponents, when party leader Ro Teimumu Kepa herself, on 15 April, vehemently objected to Rabuka's membership of the party, citing his treasonous coups of 1987. Fair enough but what about the former convict Tui Cakau, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, who fiercely lobbied for Rabuka to represent Sodelpa from Cakaudrove! Sitiveni Rabuka has apologized for his 1987 coups and gave to Fiji, along with Jai Ram Reddy, the negotiated 1997 Constitution of Fiji, unlike the present lot who are holding election under their imposed 2013 Constitution and Decrees. Good luck to Major-General Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka, who reminds us: “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” Oddly, while the party is exhibiting a moral high ground against coups (Rabuka) it has no qualm in taking on Frank Bainimarama at the polls. They would have earned respect if they had boycotted the election on the grounds that by not participating in the election they are not legitimizing Bainimarama's treasonous coup.

SODELPA Rabuka Quits Party he will not be participating in the party under any official capacity: SODELPA

6 Comments
Indo-Fijian Voter
23/4/2014 05:44:18 pm

Victor Lal saheb, this Rabuka chap drove you into exile, and Bainimarama followed in his footsteps in 2008 by slapping another banning order against you from entering Fiji!

Wake up, and join Frank's Fiji First Party! Forget about Sodelpa.

They don't seem to be fighting for i-taukei rights, for if they were doing so, they would have embraced Rabuka, who carried out the 1987 coup, according to him, to preserve the i-taukei race in Fiji!

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tualeita
23/4/2014 08:29:12 pm

Rabuka will drive away voters from SODELPA. Especially the non-indigenous voters. The party is in this election under protest because it wants its voice to be heard under the current draconian decrees that prohibit the people from effectively asking pertinent questions and from fearlessly criticizing this illegal government. But in its campaign for this upcoming election, SODELPA will vent tirades on the Bainimarama government without fear of intimidation.

The Party can ask questions, for instance, as to why is it that the Auditor Generals reports from 2006 to 2013 have not been published. Or why is it that pensioners from FNPF are paid less than they used to be paid, and why is it that police brutality that was shown on video has not been investigated or where has the investigation into this issue arrived.

There are many unanswered questions that the public need answers to and SODELPA needs to represent the good people who need answers so that they are able to elect better people into government who are fair, just and transparent.

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Good journalists don't take sides
23/4/2014 09:09:20 pm

Rabuka and Jai Ram did not give that beautiful Constitution to Fiji, but Rabuka supported the GCC's wishes to the reconciliatory and proportionate seat sharing in the Cabinet which were not part of the Reeves Commission recommendation.

It is GCC that gave final bastian to RFMF and not Reeves Commisssion.

GCC zinda baad...

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Hypocrisy
24/4/2014 05:18:27 am

"Ro Teimumu Kepa herself, on 15 April, vehemently objected to Rabuka's membership of the party, citing his treasonous coups of 1987". Ro Temumu was in parliament after the 2000 coup takeover, giving full hilt support to Speight! Liumuri and hypocrisy Fijian style, as Rabuka knows only too well. By now he is used to being used and discarded.

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Vinaka Sodelpa
24/4/2014 03:58:29 pm

Sodelpa youth and women. Thank you for this.

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vasu
24/4/2014 10:38:32 pm

Rabuka vaka cava e sa lala na taga, vinaka mo cegu MAGATINAMU

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