By Adama Makasuba
In jubilant mood the People’s Progressive Party, (PPP) Saturday held its first rally following over two decades of silent by ex- President Yhaya Jammeh’s APRC regime held in Brikama Ba.
Hundreds of its supporters across the country dressed in their purple attires thronged the Brikama Ba chanting and drumming the name of former president Sir Dawda Jawara- current party leader Papa Njie and Omar Amadou Jallow alias OJ.
Papa Njie , the current leader of the party said he came to rejuvenate PPP and restructure the party after 22 years of brutality by the APRC regime.
“I came to reconnect PPP yesterday to PPP today to PPP tomorrow. We are not party that gives false promises; we are base on factual promises,” he said.
He also promised to reconstruct the market centre of the community while promised to renovate the youth centre, and fence the football field in future.
“But I would rebuild the market ‘lumo’ weekly market because the market standard is not very impressive and the market needs to be improved to ease business in the community here. I am not saying I would do it now but anytime I have the resources I would surely fence your football field and the youth centre,” he told party supporters.
Former minister of Agriculture, OJ assured the gathering that if Papa Njie is elected as president next presidential election he would do what PPP does and add more on to that in the country.
He lambasted former president Jammeh for taking credit of PPP projects in the country after he overthrew the party, adding Jammeh was living a falsehood in the country.
“PPP is for the farmers and Gambians. Yahya Jammeh overthrew our government he brutalized us, he lied against us. He disturbed the party but Allah say this party will not die. Where is Jammeh today, only truth is remains?” he said.
He said during his tenure as minister of Agriculture that The Gambia used to produce 230 thousand tons of groundnuts but that when Jammeh’s APRC came into power that number diminished to 35 thousand tons.