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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The deputy spokesman of the APRC has greeted the election results with very little surprise. According to Dodou Jah, the APRC had always known that their five Fo\u00f1i seats could be in danger because of the events that engulfed the area in recent months and the general perception of the people there that government is doing nothing about their concerns. \u201dAnd because of our political relationship with the governing party, the voters naturally punished us by rejecting our candidates for the No Alliance group,\u201d he said. He however explained that the rival APRC faction has campaigned on a promise that they cannot deliver.<\/p>\n

\u201dThey promised the people of Fo\u00f1i that they will remove Ecomig soldiers from there and bring back Jammeh which they cannot do,\u201d Jah said.<\/p>\n

Asked if that was not the same message his group had been promising since 2017, Jah said the APRC has at least tried to engage the president on many issues including the fate of Jammeh and even persuaded Barrow to visit Kanilai as well as getting the government to consider removing soldiers from his house.<\/p>\n

\u201dBut we all know how Jammeh himself came out to derail all that. So we have tried and so I don\u2019t think the No Alliance can do more than that and soon the Fo\u00f1i people will realise it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On the poor showing of the NPP, Mr Jah said the party did not do much collaboration with its coalition partners in this election unlike the presidential election and that is why they failed in many areas. \u201cIn fact, we have wanted to contest more areas than the 7 they allowed us and like we did in Jeshwang and Bundung, we could have won more. We have told the NPP that without APRC the danger of UDP getting strong again is there and that is what happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the results did not also show that the No Alliance is a big force. \u201cIt is only Fo\u00f1i that they can win because of the circumstances I described above. They contested in more places than us but where else have they won apart from Fo\u00f1i?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

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