Hamat NK Bah, secretary general and leader of the National Reconciliation Party (NRP) has forecasted a new era of political evolution for the NRP and the nation and pledged his party’s unresolved support to the Barrow administration.
NRP held its congress on Saturday in Jarra Soma to elect the executives to steer the affairs of the party for before the next presidential elections in 2021.
“It’s interesting and a new era in the political evolution for our party as well as the nation as a whole. It’s an era that for the first time we have had a convention and invited the IEC and they came and of course to be presence and see what we are doing,” he said.
Thousands of the NRP supporters and the ex-vice president Fatoumata Jallow-Tambajang, Dembo Bojang, a presidential adviser, and officials of the Independent Electoral Commission graced the occasion.
Mr. Bah paid tribute to the fallen heroes of the party who sacrifice everything in the struggle towards ending dictatorship and tyranny in The Gambia.
He said: “It’s difficult when you start journey with people and see them gone before the end of the journey especially that if they make great sacrifice for the party.”
He said: “In 2006 we went into a coalition with the United Democratic Party, we supported them with everything including our resources to end dictatorship in the country and if that election was free and fair we would have won that election” Hamat N.K. Bah disclosed.
According to him, in 2011 there was a discussion to form a coalition of political parties that includes NRP, PDOIS and GPDP and this makeup the United Front that selected him to lead them to the election but that doesn’t last long because of disagreement among the coalition parties.
He said that one of the most important achievements for his party is the ‘SPOT COUNTING’ by the IEC which he said finally led to the defeat of ex-president Yahya Jammeh’s regime in December 1 2016.
“We studied what Abdoulie Wade did in Senegal and many other opposition leaders across the world and we knew that it is only ‘SPOT COUNTING’ that we can eventually get rid of Yahya Jammeh.
He said NRP will continue to promote the flourish of democracy in The Gambia and will endeavour to nurture it, disclosing the party has insisted that the issue of spot counting should never be a discussion as far as the enactment of the IEC 2015 Act is concern and if not the NRP will not be part of the political process.
Hon. Bah added that the party will continue to promote the agenda of youths and women of this country to the government in the drive to revitalizing the economy of this country.
He pointed out the opening of the Senegambia bridge will go a long way in creating more economic and employment opportunities for the youths of this country especially those of the rural Gambia.
He said the party will endeavor to reach out to the communities in a bid to expand its tentacles across the length and breadth of the country, disclosing that motilities was given to party militants to reinforce the scope of followers and support base.
Author: Kebba Ansu Manneh