Africa-Press – Gambia. Yankuba Darboe, Chairman of the Brikama Area Council (BAC) and a senior member of the United Democratic Party (UDP), has accused the Unite Movement for Change (UMC), led by Talib Bensouda, of misleading Gambian youth. He described the movement as “a joke,” alleging that it spreads falsehoods about his political activities.
Darboe made these remarks in response to claims by Ebrima Ceesay, the former UDP chairman for Kombo East, who alleged that Darboe had sought his support for the party’s flagbearership. The BAC chairman dismissed the allegation as completely baseless.
“Gambia, you see what Talib is turning these youths into! This movement is becoming a joke, spewing nothing but lies! What I did for Kombo East, no chairman has ever done for them, and there is more to come for the people of Kombo East,” Darboe said.
Darboe insists that he never discussed the issue of flagbearership with Ceesay, pointing out that the latter was neither a member of the UDP Central Committee nor part of the selection team responsible for choosing a flagbearer.
“In fact, if I was going to discuss such an issue with anyone, he would have been the last person I would have confided that to,” he said.
He further emphasized that he was not a contestant in the flagbearership race and had publicly declared his non-participation long before the process began.
“So why would I send people to him to seek his support for flagbearership that I was not contesting? He asked. “And it could not have been prior to this contest, because I have never sought that position in the past.”
Darboe also dismissed Ceesay’s claims about alleged irregularities in the UDP selection process and meetings with the Kombo East executive as pure fabrications.
“The rest of what he said about the UDP selection process and our meeting with the Kombo East executive and what he said there and not said there or the advice he had given me about developing Kombo East are all fabrications of his imagination. UDP selection rules were never changed, and if that was the case, his master, Talib Bensouda, would have been the first to cry about it,” he said.
Highlighting his development achievements in Kombo East, Darboe cited several initiatives funded through the council and the Ward Development Fund—amounting to D3.5 million over two years—including borehole projects at Faraba Banta Women’s Garden, Basori Village, and Kafuta Nema, among others.
He noted that these projects have directly benefited residents of Giboro Ward, including Ceesay himself.
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