By Mustapha Jarju
An aide to President Adama Barrow has send a strong warning that National People’s Party, will not tolerate any form of insults, as he dismissed claims of his party motivation to influence supporters to direct insults toward opposition.
Speaking to The Voice newspaper exclusively, Dou Sannoh, said: “NPP as a party will not tolerate insults from their supporters,” adding “the mandate we have now is to discuss with people to have their votes, discursion without insults.”
He refuted claims of NPP using money to influence its supporters to insult other political supporters as false and unfounded allegations fabricated by enemies to taint the image and reputation of his party.
“I swear to God I will never be a friend to anyone just for you to go and insult others. I will never ask anyone to go and insult other and whenever I am aware of such, I promised to stop the person. If you insult someone and the person becomes angry, he will pay back. We all went to the river but he who throws stone in to the river that scattered the fish should be blamed,” he said.
“It is necessary to implement laws that help to control insults that are currently circulating in the Gambia. Insults don’t favor any party and any party instigating insult it will damage your party. I urged people to refrain from insulting one another because of politics,” he said.
“If it is about peace and to talk about how to bring ideas together to control political insults and issues affecting the country’s political environment, yes, we are ready to discuss that with the UDP,” he added.
He further emphasized that it is important for both the UDP and NPP to advise their militants who are rallying behind them to stop things that doesn’t go with the country`s law and the societal rules of the Gambia, stressing that this are areas that need to be taken care because insults were not common during his time in UDP.
“The type of politics currently going on among people will to bring unity, because the abusive words that are currently circulating cannot bring us together,” he pointed out.
