{"id":5794,"date":"2021-11-09T18:33:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T18:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/banky-will-not-appeal-rejection"},"modified":"2021-11-09T19:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:22:39","slug":"banky-will-not-appeal-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/banky-will-not-appeal-rejection","title":{"rendered":"Banky will not appeal rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Banky will not appeal rejection By Alagie Manneh Presidential aspirant Bankole Yao Ahadzie, whose nomination was among those rejected by the IEC on Saturday, has said he accepted the decision \u201cin good faith\u201d and will not make any appeal. While many of his fellow rejected candidates have since promised to appeal, Banky said he will not take that path.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to appeal,\u201d said Muhammed Jonga, the spokesperson of Banky\u2019s campaign, the WatoTJ Movement. \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t make sense for us to appeal to the same referee who ruled against us. Since they are saying that we don\u2019t have the required number of voters in the areas deemed necessary, why do we need to appeal again? We take it in good faith,\u201d Jonga said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jonga said Banky\u2019s intention is to change the course of events, and uplift Gambians from abject poverty and backwardness by participating in the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were hopeful that we were going to take part and lead the country, but things took a negative turn.\u201d Asked what next after this setback, Mr Jonga said Banky is not a politician and he would move on to other things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had felt the pain of the masses, their struggles and that\u2019s why he declared his intention to try and change things. That was the reason why he aspired to be president,\u201d Jonga explained.<\/p>\n<p>On the prospects of Banky going into an alliance with any other party or independent, Jonga said he cannot elaborate. \u201cI cannot say much on that for now. I believe whatever we agree on, you will be notified. Banky is going to call a press conference and everything will be clear.\u201d Mr Jonga also took time to comment about those who ridiculed Banky for his choice of dress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDress code doesn\u2019t matter to him [Banky]. For Banky, what matters is what you have in your head. We have seen people in suits leading, but up till now they have got nothing to show for Gambia. The country is still poor. So, people should not judge the book by its cover. That is not important,\u201d Jonga 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. Banky will not appeal rejection By Alagie Manneh Presidential aspirant Bankole Yao Ahadzie, whose nomination was among those rejected by the IEC on Saturday, has said he accepted the decision \u201cin good faith\u201d and will not make any appeal. While many of his fellow rejected candidates have since promised to appeal, Banky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[2355,2361,2674,260,2568],"class_list":["post-5794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-banky","tag-gambia","tag-iec"],"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>Banky will not appeal rejection - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Banky will not appeal rejection By Alagie Manneh Presidential aspirant Bankole Yao Ahadzie, whose nomination was among t ...\" \/>\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\/banky-will-not-appeal-rejection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Banky will not appeal rejection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Banky will not appeal rejection By Alagie Manneh Presidential aspirant Bankole Yao Ahadzie, whose nomination was among t ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/banky-will-not-appeal-rejection\" \/>\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=\"2021-11-09T18:33:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-09T19:22:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-618aca56492da.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\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\/banky-will-not-appeal-rejection#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/banky-will-not-appeal-rejection\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Banky will not appeal rejection\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-09T18:33:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-09T19:22:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/banky-will-not-appeal-rejection\"},\"wordCount\":375,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/banky-will-not-appeal-rejection#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-618aca56492da.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Banky\",\"Gambia\",\"IEC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/banky-will-not-appeal-rejection#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/banky-will-not-appeal-rejection\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/banky-will-not-appeal-rejection\",\"name\":\"Banky will not appeal rejection - 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