{"id":88096,"date":"2025-10-15T19:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/minister-sillah-formation-of-ndp-will-not-affect-npp"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:44:08","slug":"minister-sillah-formation-of-ndp-will-not-affect-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/minister-sillah-formation-of-ndp-will-not-affect-npp","title":{"rendered":"Minister Sillah: Formation of NDP will not Affect NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Minister of Transport, Works, and Infrastructure, Ebrima Sillah, has stated that the recent formation of the National Democratic Party (NDP), a splinter group from the National People\u2019s Party (NPP), will have no impact on the ruling party.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, Minister Sillah emphasized that the split has \u201cabsolutely no impact\u201d on the NPP, noting that even a fractional shift of 0.5%, 1%, or 7% would be negligible given the party\u2019s solid support base. \u201cI said it has no impact. Even 0.5%, 7%, or even 1% is a marginal number in terms of our solid base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the NPP\u2019s core supporters\u2014comprising approximately 37% of the electorate\u2014are largely made up of the party\u2019s founding members, committed followers, and voters who consistently back the ruling party. \u201cThis is a solid group, representing nearly 19% of our population,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Sillah further highlighted that any Gambian president can count on the unwavering support of this core segment, attributing their loyalty in part to religious and traditional beliefs.<\/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. The Minister of Transport, Works, and Infrastructure, Ebrima Sillah, has stated that the recent formation of the National Democratic Party (NDP), a splinter group from the National People\u2019s Party (NPP), will have no impact on the ruling party. In a recent interview, Minister Sillah emphasized that the split has \u201cabsolutely no impact\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":88095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-88096","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>Minister Sillah: Formation of NDP will not Affect NPP - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Minister of Transport, Works, and Infrastructure, Ebrima Sillah, has stated that the recent formation of the Nati ...\" \/>\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\/minister-sillah-formation-of-ndp-will-not-affect-npp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister Sillah: Formation of NDP will not Affect NPP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Minister of Transport, Works, and Infrastructure, Ebrima Sillah, has stated that the recent formation of the Nati ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/minister-sillah-formation-of-ndp-will-not-affect-npp\" \/>\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=\"2025-10-15T19:22:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-15T19:44:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/sm_1760544820.179775.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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/minister-sillah-formation-of-ndp-will-not-affect-npp#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/minister-sillah-formation-of-ndp-will-not-affect-npp\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Minister Sillah: Formation of NDP will not Affect NPP\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-15T19:22:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-15T19:44:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/minister-sillah-formation-of-ndp-will-not-affect-npp\"},\"wordCount\":187,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/minister-sillah-formation-of-ndp-will-not-affect-npp#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/sm_1760544820.179775.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/minister-sillah-formation-of-ndp-will-not-affect-npp#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/minister-sillah-formation-of-ndp-will-not-affect-npp\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/minister-sillah-formation-of-ndp-will-not-affect-npp\",\"name\":\"Minister Sillah: Formation of NDP will not Affect NPP - 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