The Gambia’s former President Yahya Jammeh has asserted that he’ll return home to rule the tiny West African state willy nilly. Mr. Jammeh said, in no uncertain terms, that he will return to The Gambia whether it’s liked or not, adding that he was never banished. “Listen to me well[Read More…]
Tag: APRC
Gambia: Inertia Hits FTJ-led APRC As Officials Land Top Jobs
Lethargy is increasingly creeping into the FTJ-led APRC as some of the faction’s top officials landed top jobs in the Barrow administration whilst others were “left in the cold”. Despite lacking the financial muscle to hold a biennial congress this year, the FTJ-led APRC is not making any significant move[Read More…]
APRC’s Amie Jatta Calls For United Force Against Barrow
A stalwart of former President Yahya Jammeh’s APRC has been using the airwaves in an apparent attempt to prick the national consciousness about the need and urgency for collective action against President Adama Barrow. In several of her radio interventions, Amie Jatta made passionate appeals to Gambians to put aside[Read More…]
APRC Suggests NPP’s Poor Polls Show Down To Betrayal
The National People’s Party (NPP) was left to fend for itself in the last legislative elections because the party has overplayed its hands, so says APRC Director of Press and Public Relations, suggesting that NPP’s dismal polls showing was the consequence of its betrayal of coalition partners. “After the election[Read More…]
APRC Never Tormented Any Gambian – FTJ
Senior officials of FTJ-led APRC on Friday crossed over to the North Bank for a weekend retreat to bang heads together over the party’s present and future but before reclining from the public view, FTJ told the people of Juffureh and Albreda that APRC as a party never tormented any[Read More…]
We’re Not Convening Any Presser On TRRC White Paper – Rambo Declares
The First Deputy Party Leader of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), Ousman Rambo Jatta, has said his party will never convene a press conference over government’s White Paper on TRRC recommendations. Rambo was responding to questions from some APRC militants as to why the party was strangely[Read More…]
NPP Coalition Dealing With Internal Resistance
The NPP coalition is currently dealing with pockets of resistance from within as the local government elections loom. With polls’ date yet to be announced by the IEC, storm has already set off in the coalition with NPP and APRC all having their eyes firmly fixed on the Kanifing Municipal[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh: Objection To The President’s National Assembly Nominations
By all standards, these current nominations betray the reasons and rationale for presidential nominations. The norm that has guided the President in proposing nominations to the National Assembly is to cater for sectors of society that are under-represented to promote inclusion and national unity. For that reason, women, youth, persons[Read More…]
Low Turnout In Gambia’s National Assembly Vote
There has been a low voter turnout as Gambians head out to cast their ballot in national assembly elections on Saturday, the first since a historic presidential vote saw incumbent Adama Barrow returned to power last December. 962, 157 Gambians have been registered to vote for their next parliamentarians distributed[Read More…]
Halifa Sallah: “We Should Take Ourselves Seriously”
As the just concluded legislative election was marked by a low turnout of voters , Halifa Sallah of the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) has added his voice to the chorus of recriminations. “We should take ourselves seriously otherwise our destiny is lost,” PDOIS emblematic figure told[Read More…]
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