{"id":58361,"date":"2024-05-16T17:33:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T17:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/saballys-popularity-on-facebook-declines-following-defection-to-npp"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:59:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:59:17","slug":"saballys-popularity-on-facebook-declines-following-defection-to-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/saballys-popularity-on-facebook-declines-following-defection-to-npp","title":{"rendered":"Sabally\u2019s Popularity on Facebook Declines Following Defection to NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The huge Facebook following that the former UDP campaign manager Momodou Saballyenjoyed has hugely declined following his defection to the NPP sometime ago but Saballyhas strenuously denied this.<\/b><\/p>\n

An audit conducted on Sabally\u2019s main Facebookby this reporter has revealed a massive drop in the politician\u2019s Facebook fandom as numbers nose-dived from four digits to two digits.<\/p>\n

Before waving goodbye to the Gambia\u2019s main opposition party, Sabally virtually had a cult following on Facebook as his posts generated more than one thousand likes and some hundreds of comments.<\/p>\n

However, the former presidential affairs minister under Jammeh has been struggling to redeem his former popularity as his Facebookposts now generate less than 20 likes and comments at times.<\/p>\n

It was unclear to this reporter why Sabally has been massively losing ground on Facebook.<\/p>\n

However, this reporter has learned that some UDP members have been calling for a boycott of his Facebook page since he turned his back on the party, and Sabally himself said despite the call for a boycott, his Facebook page has been burgeoning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a personal profile, which most people don\u2019t follow. Where my posts happen is my public figure page, which had about 60,000 followers when I left the UDP. The page that they said they would boycott has now reached 62,000 followers,\u201d Sabally explained to this media.<\/p>\n

He dismissed as malicious and mendacious this reporter\u2019s findings about his dwindling popularity on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Mr. Sabally sent us a screenshot of the latest video that he posted on Facebook, hinting thatthe over 100,000 views that the video garneredwere enough proof of his growing popularity<\/p>\n

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