Tida Kijera, acting spokeswoman of the Gambia Moral Congress has said the GMC is not a party to the recent declaration by former vice president Fatoumata Jallow-Tambajang on behalf of \u2018Coalition 2016\u2019 sanctioning President Barrow\u2019s intent to rule for a full five-year term.<\/p>\n
Kijera who is also the national women mobiliser of GMC said her party \u201cwishes to clarify that the recent pronouncement by the chairperson of Coalition 2016, Madam Fatoumata Jallow-Tambajang does not reflect our position.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said the GMC as a party was neither consulted about the visit to State House by Mrs Jallow-Tambajang and her cohorts nor gave its blessing to an extension of the president\u2019s mandate, arguing that major and important decisions like that can only be approved by a GMC national congress.<\/p>\n
Kijera\u2019s statement noted: \u201cIn 2016, we went into a coalition following a decision made by the national congress. Similarly, a decision to extend the president\u2019s mandate from three years to five years can only be made by the national congress.<\/p>\n
In conclusion, we wish to emphasise that neither the party leader nor the GMC executive were informed about the meeting referred to by Madam Fatoumata Jallow-Tambajang.\u201d
\nGMC leader Mai Fatty, currently serves as a special adviser to President Barrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tida Kijera, acting spokeswoman of the Gambia Moral Congress has said the GMC is not a party to the recent declaration by former vice president Fatoumata Jallow-Tambajang on behalf of \u2018Coalition 2016\u2019 sanctioning President Barrow\u2019s intent to rule for a full five-year term. Kijera who is also the national women mobiliser of GMC said her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,10],"tags":[938,939,237,937],"class_list":{"0":"post-1508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-parties","11":"tag-acting-spokeswoman-of-the-gambia-moral-congress","13":"tag-gambia-news","14":"tag-tida-kijera"},"yoast_head":"\n