As The Gambia goes to polls for the Local Government (LG) election next month, President Adama Barrow in an interview with Star TV has vowed that his National People’s Party (NPP) will win all council seats to bring collaboration between local councils and central government.
Speaking on Saturday, Mr Barrow stated: “I need all the seats because they are important to me. If I win all seats, then it will make my work easy. Having a mayor who is the same party as me will make my work easy and functioning. But if we have a mayor who is left and we are right, we will crash at the traffic light.”
The NPP leader revealed that he doesn’t want to have leaders in the local authorities who will be politicizing the work. He explained that the premises within the Banjul Market, which is a commercial area, is always not cleaned. Read more
