Exile former president Yahya Jammeh has strenuously said his APRC party would not form coalition with any political party in 2021 presidential elections.
Mr Jammeh, who ruled the country for 22 years, was speaking in a WhatsApp conversation with his party deputy interim leader Ousman Rambo Jatta at his base in Equatorial Guinea.
“Let me also make it very clear the APRC will not go with coalition with anybody or an alliance with anybody whose hand is not clean in fact we don’t need any alliance with any party because we are the majority we are party with discipline and we cannot bring in people into our mist who will be saying so many bad things we don’t need them,” he said in the audio.
Jammeh,54, claimed his return home at any time citing an agreement signed by UN, AU, ECOWAS and Barrow-led government in 2017 and urged his party supporters to remain law abiding.
“All we need are genuine Gambian, clean Gambians Allah fearing Gambians either Christian or Muslim, people who love peace who want to see their children to go to school peacefully and freely I mean I have no cost to them they want a develop and prosperous country make all of proud just like the Qataris are proud of themselves,” he added.
He also urged his party supporters not to return insult at anybody who insulted him, saying “insulting people as bad language is the language of the devil.”
The sake of the almighty Allah let the APRC continue to have the love for the welfare of the people wellbeing of the Gambian people the development of the Gambian people uniting the Gambian people rather than dividing them. I am sure you must also be very vigilant of people from other parties whether they are militant member of the party or crooks in your mist to create a problem, Jammeh said.