{"id":82268,"date":"2025-07-17T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/udp-official-calls-barrows-critics-as-patriotic-citizens"},"modified":"2025-07-17T14:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:49:20","slug":"udp-official-calls-barrows-critics-as-patriotic-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-official-calls-barrows-critics-as-patriotic-citizens","title":{"rendered":"UDP Official Calls Barrow\u2019S Critics as \u201cPatriotic Citizens\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>United Democratic Party\u2019s spokesperson for North Bank, Karamo Njie, has described critics of President Adama Barrow\u2019s government as patriotic citizens who are yearning to see a better Gambia.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Njie made the remarks during an interview granted on Tuesday at his residence in Bundung. This follows President Barrow\u2019s comment that people who are trying to stop his third term bid are not visible in politics.<\/p>\n<p>Njie says these young people are good citizens of The Gambia who want to see a change of government in 2026, adding that President Barrow surrounded himself with his 2016 enemies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, those who distanced themselves from UDP before 2016 are now with us because they want an end to bad governance. They want to end corruption. They want to end mismanagement of public funds,\u201d he noted. \u201cThey want to see an improvement in medical, agricultural educational and economic sectors. Who surrounded him (Barrow) now? These are people who never wanted him to be president of the country. They called him all sorts of ugly names. Doesn\u2019t he embrace and give them positions in his government?\u201d Njie added.<\/p>\n<p>He questioned the motive of appraisal for the construction of Niumi \u201cHakalang Road,\u201d arguing that the expenses were met by Gambian taxpayers, saying, \u201cWhy should he be praised for something mandatory of him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Njie added that Barrow should desist from claiming that he had achieved more developments than the past two regimes of Jawara and Jammeh. According to him, this current administration is unable to address pressing national concerns of price hikes, insecurity, corruption and mismanagement of the country\u2019s resources among other things.<\/p>\n<p>Njie advised community leaders to abstain from actions that give \u201ccheap popularity\u201d to the president. He maintained that Barrow\u2019s administration can\u2019t survive 2026 presidential election, stating that citizens are discontented with the regime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Gambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. United Democratic Party\u2019s spokesperson for North Bank, Karamo Njie, has described critics of President Adama Barrow\u2019s government as patriotic citizens who are yearning to see a better Gambia. Njie made the remarks during an interview granted on Tuesday at his residence in Bundung. This follows President Barrow\u2019s comment that people who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":82267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-82268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","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>UDP Official Calls Barrow\u2019S Critics as \u201cPatriotic Citizens\u201d - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"United Democratic Party\u2019s spokesperson for North Bank, Karamo Njie, has described critics of President Adama Barrow\u2019s ...\" \/>\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\/udp-official-calls-barrows-critics-as-patriotic-citizens\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UDP Official Calls Barrow\u2019S Critics as \u201cPatriotic Citizens\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"United Democratic Party\u2019s spokesperson for North Bank, Karamo Njie, has described critics of President Adama Barrow\u2019s ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-official-calls-barrows-critics-as-patriotic-citizens\" \/>\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=\"2025-07-17T14:31:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-17T14:49:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/07\/sm_1752751055.024278.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/udp-official-calls-barrows-critics-as-patriotic-citizens#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-official-calls-barrows-critics-as-patriotic-citizens\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"UDP Official Calls Barrow\u2019S Critics as \u201cPatriotic Citizens\u201d\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-17T14:31:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-17T14:49:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-official-calls-barrows-critics-as-patriotic-citizens\"},\"wordCount\":322,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-official-calls-barrows-critics-as-patriotic-citizens#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/07\/sm_1752751055.024278.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-official-calls-barrows-critics-as-patriotic-citizens#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-official-calls-barrows-critics-as-patriotic-citizens\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-official-calls-barrows-critics-as-patriotic-citizens\",\"name\":\"UDP Official Calls Barrow\u2019S Critics as \u201cPatriotic Citizens\u201d - 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