Alliance for Patriotic Re-Orientation and Construction (APRC) has elected former President Yahya Jammeh, as the party leader and they called on government of The Gambia to allow Jammeh’s return to The Gambia.
During their sixth national congress at Fatima Senior Secondary School in Bwiam village, Foni Kansala District in the West Coast Region, the Congress Delegates unanimously elected the exile former leader in absentia, while Hon. Fabakary Tombong Jatta remains as interim party leader, Oousman Rambo Jatta, the 1st Deputy Party Leader and Yankuba Colley, as National Mobiliser. The positions in the previously executive remains the same, according to the APRC.
Jatta, in his closing speeches, commended the party militants for electing Yahya Jammeh, as secretary general and party leader of APRC.
“This manifest your loyalty and love for him, that we will never betrays him, as he has laid a solid foundation for the party and the country at large,” he said. He urged them to prepare the ground for Jammeh’s return for 2021 elections.
Earlier on, during the congress opening, Jatta explained that a joint declaration was negotiated with the government, Ecowas, AU, United Nations and Representatives of President Jammeh and have agreed upon.
“Therefore, we called on all parties to honour and respect the MOU; also, we called on the government of President Adama Barrow for the unconditional return of the former president and to unfreeze and return to him all his assets,” Jatta told the crowd.
He noted that the government frozen ex-president’s assets and assets that belong to the APRC.
Former Majority Leader of National Assembly noted: “We also called upon the coalition to return and unfreeze all APRC assets and bank accounts. He stated that the APRC accounts do not belong to president Jammeh. There are accounts that I contributed to, all national assembly members contributed to, all the executive contributed, all the party supporters also contributed. We do our fundraisings. It has nothing to do with President Jammeh.”
Yankuba Colley, the National Mobilliser for APRC called on the government to return the party’s properties and open the APRC bureau as well, adding that the government should consider the party as other political parties in the country.
He then revealed that APRC has lots supporters, noting that the party will fight through the ballot box to ensure that they [APRC] regain their glory by the Grace and Mercy of God.
Author: Sulayman Waan
