{"id":88290,"date":"2025-10-18T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/darboe-says-he-did-not-promise-bensouda-flag-bearership"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:30:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:30:42","slug":"darboe-says-he-did-not-promise-bensouda-flag-bearership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/darboe-says-he-did-not-promise-bensouda-flag-bearership","title":{"rendered":"Darboe Says he did not Promise Bensouda Flag-Bearership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>UDP leader Ousainu Darboe has emphatically denied speculation that he promised to make Talib Bensouda the presidential candidate of the party in the 2026 presidential election.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a Standard exclusive yesterday, Darboe dismissed the talk as \u201cfabrications aimed at sowing discord\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He stated: \u201cDo I own the party? If anybody is fantasying on that I think then it\u2019s unfortunate. I don\u2019t own the party. I cannot guarantee anybody that you will be the leader of the party. If I can give that guarantee then I wouldn\u2019t have applied. I would just say look, I am taking it because no other person would have applied for it. But it is because I don\u2019t own the party, it is the membership of the party that decide who should hold any particular position in the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the only authority he has which the constitution of the party gives him is to nominate some people into the national executive committee of the party and that he cannot appoint anybody to be the organising secretary, flag bearer, or leader of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think anyone who is fanning that, you are just misleading people and insulting members of the United Democratic Party, that they are just there figuratively as members and office bearers but I decide who should be what and who shouldn\u2019t be what. I think that is an insult to the members of the UDP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A close aide of the Kanifing mayor claimed that Darboe promised Bensouda his backing to become the UDP presidential candidate. Although the spokesman of the mayor\u2019s new movement thrashed the allegation by the aide, he was non-committal in addressing the question saying whatever Darboe and Bensouda discussed will remain with them.<\/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. UDP leader Ousainu Darboe has emphatically denied speculation that he promised to make Talib Bensouda the presidential candidate of the party in the 2026 presidential election. Speaking in a Standard exclusive yesterday, Darboe dismissed the talk as \u201cfabrications aimed at sowing discord\u201d. He stated: \u201cDo I own the party? 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