By Adama Makasuba
Dodou Jah, spokesman for APRC, has lashed out at opposition figures still adamant to concede defeat as oppositions who are shocked after losing the election but don’t want to accept President Adama Barrow’s clean victory.
Opposition leaders of United Democratic Party Lawyer Ousainou Darboe and Gambia Democratic Congress Mamma Kandeh still rejected the results citing the election was not fair.
Adama Barrow,56, and a former house developer secured 53% of the vote leaving his political mentor and rival Ousainou Darboe with 27% of the vote.
Mr Jah described the two figures as a shocked opposition who never believed they would be battered with such a huge margin in the first post-Jammeh presidential election seen as a test for democracy in The Gambia.
“Secondly why I was not surprised that they rejected the results is because our system is spot counting and everyone has an agent in the various polling stations and now if you say it’s not fair what does that mean? They have agents in every polling station and how this election was conducted made both local and international observers confirm that the election was free and fair,” he said.
“But those who rejected the results think they are going to win the election and since they couldn’t get what they wanted, I think that pushed them to reject the results and believe they were cheated. So, if you see yourself only and believe that without you nobody else that’s something that can always shock you,” he added.
“I think opposition will still exist but whether opposition can remove Adama Barrow in power as far as the grand coalition is still in place working in hands for Adama Barrow, I don’t think opposition can remove Adama Barrow in power. But if anyone wants to run on your (his/her) own then Adama Barrow is here for a while. And the problem of the Gambian opposition is that every one of them is for itself,” he stated.
