Brikama Area Council Chairman Sheriffo Sonko has strongly dismissed UDP supporters’ brag, as they are claiming it was members of UDP that voted him to the chairmanship position at the BAC.
Chairman Sonko said it is “not true. So many people voted for me that are members of APRC and so many members of GDC voted for me. It’s 100% clear that it’s not only UDP [supporters] who voted me in here, it is just that it was the UDP ticket but they did not spend a penny on me,” Sonko said.
Sonko was a member of the UDP and his standing in the party saw him swat aside his challengers in the party to become the party’s candidate in the Brikama Area Council local government election in 2018.
However, Sonko is no longer a member of the party as he has fallen out with the party after the party sacked him last year when he was accused by the UDP that he was straying from the cause of the party.