By Adama Makasuba
The leader of United Democratic Party has predicted to pull more people on his nomination day, as thousands of UDP supporters gathered at Sukuta rally over the weekend to listen to him in an organised.
Lawyer Ousainou Darboe told the rally: “I don’t think whether I would pull such crowd, but I am sure on nomination day, the crowd I will pull will be more than the crowd here.”
He expressed hope of emerging victorious in the December 4 presidential election, while he advised Gambians to massively vote for the betterment of the nation. He thanked his party supporters for attending the rally massively in Sukuta which he described the biggest rally ever he has addressed in his 27 years of political career.
“What I see here today, 80% are youths, and the youth have merged together. A Gambia you will be put in a position to actualise your Gambia that will make you contribute meaningfully to the development of this country,” he told the rally.
“It’s your responsibility to elect a responsible government and I want to appeal to you, no one should stay home on 4th December,” he said while adding that “those people who (will) refuse to vote are the one who end up electing a bad government, and you don’t want to be part of those.”
Meanwhile, he described the rally as the biggest political rally he has ever addressed in his political career, saying that no political party has ever pulled such crowd as well in this country.
“I don’t think I have ever had this type of welcome in my political career, and I believe and I know as a fact, no politician in this country had such crowd,” he continued.
He called on his supporters to ensure President Adama Barrow is unseated on 4th December election.
Meanwhile, he responded to critics who accused him of changing his identity to Abubacarr.
“But if people are worried and think that is the name that will disqualify me from getting nominated, let them go and look into the constitution, let them go to the Elections Act and see what disqualifies one from getting nominated,” he said.