{"id":90790,"date":"2025-11-23T17:24:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/bac-chairman-promises-d5-million-per-ward-if-udp-wins"},"modified":"2025-11-23T17:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:39:58","slug":"bac-chairman-promises-d5-million-per-ward-if-udp-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bac-chairman-promises-d5-million-per-ward-if-udp-wins","title":{"rendered":"BAC Chairman Promises D5 Million per Ward if UDP Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Yankuba Darboe, chairman of the Brikama Area Council, told supporters at a political gathering in Jambanjelly that each ward in the West Coast Region would receive D5 million if the United Democratic Party secures victory in the 2026 presidential election.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you take our father to the statehouse on December 5th, in February 2027, I will give out D5 million to each ward. This is my promise to you,\u201d Mr. Darboe said, drawing applause from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Darboe said that since assuming office, his administration has distributed funds annually to wards across the region\u2014D500,000 initially, followed by D1 million per ward in 2025. He added that the council intends to disburse another D1 million next year.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing supporters, he argued that the West Coast Region alone could deliver a national victory for the UDP. \u201cHalf of the country\u2019s population lives in West Coast. Even if NBR, URR, CRR, and LRR did not vote for UDP, if we do, we will go to State House,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He warned, however, that the promised D5 million allocation would not materialize if the party failed to win the presidency. Mr. Darboe also pledged that a UDP victory would bring further development to the region, including a new stadium in Jambanjelly, and suggested that such investments would discourage young people from risking irregular migration.<\/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. Yankuba Darboe, chairman of the Brikama Area Council, told supporters at a political gathering in Jambanjelly that each ward in the West Coast Region would receive D5 million if the United Democratic Party secures victory in the 2026 presidential election. \u201cIf you take our father to the statehouse on December 5th, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":90789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-90790","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>BAC Chairman Promises D5 Million per Ward if UDP Wins - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yankuba Darboe, chairman of the Brikama Area Council, told supporters at a political gathering in Jambanjelly that ea ...\" \/>\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\/bac-chairman-promises-d5-million-per-ward-if-udp-wins\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BAC Chairman Promises D5 Million per Ward if UDP Wins\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yankuba Darboe, chairman of the Brikama Area Council, told supporters at a political gathering in Jambanjelly that ea ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bac-chairman-promises-d5-million-per-ward-if-udp-wins\" \/>\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=\"2025-11-23T17:24:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-23T17:39:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/sm_1763906906.243774.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"877\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"525\" \/>\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\/bac-chairman-promises-d5-million-per-ward-if-udp-wins#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bac-chairman-promises-d5-million-per-ward-if-udp-wins\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"BAC Chairman Promises D5 Million per Ward if UDP Wins\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-23T17:24:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-23T17:39:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bac-chairman-promises-d5-million-per-ward-if-udp-wins\"},\"wordCount\":242,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bac-chairman-promises-d5-million-per-ward-if-udp-wins#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/sm_1763906906.243774.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\/bac-chairman-promises-d5-million-per-ward-if-udp-wins#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bac-chairman-promises-d5-million-per-ward-if-udp-wins\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bac-chairman-promises-d5-million-per-ward-if-udp-wins\",\"name\":\"BAC Chairman Promises D5 Million per Ward if UDP Wins - 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