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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Amidst what most political commentators described as a woeful performance in the councillorship election in the West Coast Region, a senior member of the National People\u2019s Party (NPP), Ebrima Sillah, has said the party has learned its lesson from last month\u2019s councillorship election, saying the party will get back its members who failed to vote in the recently concluded councillorship election to enable Seedy Sheriff Ceesay to win the chairmanship election.<\/b><\/p>\n

Speaking on Seedy Sheriff Ceesay\u2019s chances of winning amidst UDP\u2019s dominance in the councilorship election, Sillah said that only 17 per cent of their 53% per cent winning rate in the West Coast Region went out to vote. He said that their focus will now be on the people that are NPP members and failed to vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know very well that our people did not come out to vote. So, this is why this time, we are targeting and focusing more on those people who did not come out to vote and they are NPP supporters. I can tell you that we have learned our lessons in that,\u201d he told TFN.<\/p>\n

The National People\u2019s Party, despite winning convincingly in the December 2021 presidential election in the West Coast Region, was able to secure only two wards in the council election last month.<\/p>\n

Sillah, who is one of NPP\u2019s most influential figures in the West Coast Region, outlined that the party has learned its lessons and discovered what went wrong.<\/p>\n

He explained to TFN that 20 per cent of UDP members, out of their 28 per cent win rate in December 2021, went out to vote, unlike NPP.<\/p>\n

\u201cUDP has not more than 28% of voters in the West Coast Region in the 2021 presidential election. Out of that 28%, in the local government election, 20% of those people went out to vote. NPP, with 53% of what we got in the presidential election, only 17% of those people went out to vote\u201d, he explained.<\/p>\n

NPP\u2019s candidate Seedy Sheriff Ceesay will be battling with nine other candidates including UDP\u2019s Yankuba Darboe for the top seat in the Brikama Area Council.<\/p>\n

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