{"id":29153,"date":"2023-02-03T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T09:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/team-bakary-vows-to-beat-mayor-bensouda"},"modified":"2023-02-03T11:12:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T11:12:53","slug":"team-bakary-vows-to-beat-mayor-bensouda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/team-bakary-vows-to-beat-mayor-bensouda","title":{"rendered":"TEAM BAKARY VOWS TO BEAT MAYOR BENSOUDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The much-anticipated hot contest in the KM mayoral election is already gathering steam following Sports Minister Bakary Badjie\u2019s hint that he may run for the NPP against Mayor Talib Bensouda of the UDP.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, MC Cham Jr, the campaign manager of the GDC, stated that Badjie would commit a political suicide if he decides to challenge Talib.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Matarr Saine, the mobilizer general of Team Bakary Badjie, a group which has remained intact since Badjie\u2019s first attempt to be mayor in the 2018 elections, has dismissed Mr Cham\u2019s comments as idle talk.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Saine said instead of busying himself in endorsing candidates of other political parties, MC Cham should try to rebuild the tattered image of his own GDC where he is campaign manager.<\/p>\n<p>He added that if there is anybody who can beat Talib, that is Bakary Badjie. \u201cHe has a very good chance of beating Mayor Talib Bensouda,\u201d Saine said.<\/p>\n<p>He said Minister Badjie will be committing no political suicide if he decides to contest for the KM mayoral seat.<\/p>\n<p>Saine revealed that \u201cTeam Bakary Badjie endorsed President Adama Barrow since 2019, at a time when no one anticipated Bakary to be minister or candidate for the NPP. So, I want people to know that President Barrow appointed Bakary Badjie based on his competence and if he wants him to contest for mayor of KM, what is wrong with that?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said good politicians are known to be consistent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Bakary was contesting as an independent candidate in the 2018 local government elections, he resigned from a well-paid job to come and serve the interest of Gambians and despite contesting as independent candidate, he did extremely well. With the backing of the NPP that can only be better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The much-anticipated hot contest in the KM mayoral election is already gathering steam following Sports Minister Bakary Badjie\u2019s hint that he may run for the NPP against Mayor Talib Bensouda of the UDP. On Monday, MC Cham Jr, the campaign manager of the GDC, stated that Badjie would commit a political suicide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":29152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[2355,2361,260],"class_list":["post-29153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TEAM BAKARY VOWS TO BEAT MAYOR BENSOUDA - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The much-anticipated hot contest in the KM mayoral election is already gathering steam following Sports Minister Baka ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/team-bakary-vows-to-beat-mayor-bensouda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TEAM BAKARY VOWS TO BEAT MAYOR BENSOUDA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The much-anticipated hot contest in the KM mayoral election is already gathering steam following Sports Minister Baka ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/team-bakary-vows-to-beat-mayor-bensouda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-03T09:54:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-03T11:12:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675405502.31.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/team-bakary-vows-to-beat-mayor-bensouda#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/team-bakary-vows-to-beat-mayor-bensouda\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"TEAM BAKARY VOWS TO BEAT MAYOR BENSOUDA\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-03T09:54:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-03T11:12:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/team-bakary-vows-to-beat-mayor-bensouda\"},\"wordCount\":315,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/team-bakary-vows-to-beat-mayor-bensouda#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675405502.31.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/team-bakary-vows-to-beat-mayor-bensouda#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/team-bakary-vows-to-beat-mayor-bensouda\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/team-bakary-vows-to-beat-mayor-bensouda\",\"name\":\"TEAM BAKARY VOWS TO BEAT MAYOR BENSOUDA - 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