{"id":89367,"date":"2025-11-04T15:35:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/essa-faal-critiques-presidents-use-of-alkalos-in-campaign"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:42:09","slug":"essa-faal-critiques-presidents-use-of-alkalos-in-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-critiques-presidents-use-of-alkalos-in-campaign","title":{"rendered":"Essa Faal Critiques President&#8217;S use of Alkalos in Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Essa Mbye Faal, leader of the APP Sobeya, has criticized President Adama Barrow for allegedly instructing Alkalos, ministers, chiefs, and other officials to campaign for his re-election ahead of the 2026 presidential elections. Speaking in an interview with West Coast Radio, Faal described the move as both political and illegal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has turned Alkalos into political mobilizers for the president. He said that in the next election, Alkalos and chiefs will all be mobilizing for him,\u201d Faal said.<\/p>\n<p>The APP leader argued that using traditional rulers for partisan politics compromises their independence and violates the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is illegal because Alkalos are traditional rulers who represent the interests of all; he cannot be transformed into political operatives,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir position is a public service role. They are not there for any political party, and what the president said goes against the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Faal emphasized that traditional rulers have the right to vote for their preferred candidate, but argued that campaigning for the ruling National People\u2019s Party (NPP) is unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have the right to vote for their favorite candidate, but campaigning on behalf of the president is wrong. Forcing them to do so is not right,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition leader also called on Gambians to reconsider their support for President Barrow in the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have passed the stage where people can be fooled. At the end of the day, promises are broken, and the people will vote you out. That is what will happen in 2026,\u201d Faal 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 the APP Sobeya, has criticized President Adama Barrow for allegedly instructing Alkalos, ministers, chiefs, and other officials to campaign for his re-election ahead of the 2026 presidential elections. Speaking in an interview with West Coast Radio, Faal described the move as both political and illegal. \u201cHe has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":89366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-89367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","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 Critiques President&#039;S use of Alkalos in Campaign - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Essa Mbye Faal, leader of the APP Sobeya, has criticized President Adama Barrow for allegedly instructing Alkalos, mi ...\" \/>\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-critiques-presidents-use-of-alkalos-in-campaign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Essa Faal Critiques President&#039;S use of Alkalos in Campaign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Essa Mbye Faal, leader of the APP Sobeya, has criticized President Adama Barrow for allegedly instructing Alkalos, mi ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-critiques-presidents-use-of-alkalos-in-campaign\" \/>\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=\"2025-11-04T15:35:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-04T16:42:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/sm_1762261881.259649.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-critiques-presidents-use-of-alkalos-in-campaign#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-critiques-presidents-use-of-alkalos-in-campaign\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Essa Faal Critiques President&#8217;S use of Alkalos in Campaign\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-04T15:35:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-04T16:42:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-critiques-presidents-use-of-alkalos-in-campaign\"},\"wordCount\":273,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-critiques-presidents-use-of-alkalos-in-campaign#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/sm_1762261881.259649.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-critiques-presidents-use-of-alkalos-in-campaign#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-critiques-presidents-use-of-alkalos-in-campaign\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-critiques-presidents-use-of-alkalos-in-campaign\",\"name\":\"Essa Faal Critiques President'S use of Alkalos in Campaign - 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