{"id":86514,"date":"2025-09-22T17:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/essa-faal-signals-possibility-of-coalition"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:57:14","slug":"essa-faal-signals-possibility-of-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-signals-possibility-of-coalition","title":{"rendered":"Essa Faal Signals Possibility of Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Essa Mbye Faal, leader of APP-Sobeyaa, has hinted at the possibility of a political coalition ahead of the next presidential election. Speaking to Gambians both at home and in the diaspora through a Facebook livestream and other online platforms, Faal said discussions were ongoing but declined to disclose specific details.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot talk about the configuration of that coalition, parties, individuals, or entities that would be involved, but one thing is clear: Gambians want to see a coalition, and I hope that there will be a coalition,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Faal argued that defeating President Adama Barrow does not necessarily require a coalition. He maintained that any credible opposition party, including his own, could unseat the incumbent due to widespread dissatisfaction with his administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Barrow has done a great disservice to Gambians,\u201d Faal declared, adding that the country was \u201csuffering and bleeding not from war but from corruption, neglect, and a government that has turned its back on its people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He painted a grim picture of daily life for many Gambians: mothers walking long distances to clinics without medicine, fathers struggling against rising prices and broken promises, and children sitting in overcrowded classrooms with inadequate resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMothers walk miles to clinics in the provinces that have no medicine, fathers work tirelessly only to find their earnings swallowed by rising prices and broken promises, and our children sit in overcrowded classrooms on broken chairs, if chairs exist at all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Faal attributed these hardships not only to mismanagement but also to what he described as an \u201cunpatriotic administration\u201d that had abandoned its citizens. He accused the government of presiding over \u201cunprecedented levels of corruption\u201d and responding to public grievances with \u201cindifference, arrogance, and the arrest of courageous youths who dare to ask questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Concluding his address, Faal urged Gambians to take ownership of the country\u2019s future. \u201cTo all of you watching, I say that your voice matters, your love for Gambia is a force that can bring change,\u201d he said.<\/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. Essa Mbye Faal, leader of APP-Sobeyaa, has hinted at the possibility of a political coalition ahead of the next presidential election. Speaking to Gambians both at home and in the diaspora through a Facebook livestream and other online platforms, Faal said discussions were ongoing but declined to disclose specific details. \u201cI cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":86511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-86514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","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>Essa Faal Signals Possibility of Coalition - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Essa Mbye Faal, leader of APP-Sobeyaa, has hinted at the possibility of a political coalition ahead of the next presi ...\" \/>\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\/essa-faal-signals-possibility-of-coalition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Essa Faal Signals Possibility of Coalition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Essa Mbye Faal, leader of APP-Sobeyaa, has hinted at the possibility of a political coalition ahead of the next presi ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-signals-possibility-of-coalition\" \/>\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=\"2025-09-22T17:03:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-22T17:57:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/09\/sm_1758551032.67583.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\/essa-faal-signals-possibility-of-coalition#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-signals-possibility-of-coalition\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Essa Faal Signals Possibility of Coalition\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-22T17:03:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-22T17:57:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-signals-possibility-of-coalition\"},\"wordCount\":353,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-signals-possibility-of-coalition#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/09\/sm_1758551032.67583.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-signals-possibility-of-coalition#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-signals-possibility-of-coalition\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-signals-possibility-of-coalition\",\"name\":\"Essa Faal Signals Possibility of Coalition - 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