{"id":94382,"date":"2026-02-18T19:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/fofana-asserts-barrows-candidacy-is-not-debatable"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:16:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:16:47","slug":"fofana-asserts-barrows-candidacy-is-not-debatable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/fofana-asserts-barrows-candidacy-is-not-debatable","title":{"rendered":"Fofana Asserts Barrow&#8217;S Candidacy is not Debatable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong> <\/span><b>Nominated National Assembly Member and secretary of the governing National People\u2019s Party youth wing, Kebba Lang Fofana, has hinted that questions over who is going to be the presidential candidate is a \u201csubject of no discussion\u201d between the NPP and its allies because the candidate is \u201cabsolutely President Adama Barrow.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He was speaking at a rally in Sabach Sanjal organised by the Independent National Assembly Member of the area Babou Ceesay to clear reported misunderstandings between him and Hamat Bah, leader of the NRP. Bah, an influential member of the coalition recently warned he would not abandon his presidential ambition for anyone, a statement considered to be \u2018unhealthy to the unity of the alliance\u2019, even though he vowed to support Barrow\u2019s candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Fofana told the gathering that Barrow\u2019s candidacy is popular among women, men, the young and old, who appreciate his standing as a man of peace who brought immense development to Gambians.<\/p>\n<p>Would you people of Sanjal change Barrow for any other person? Fofana asked the crowd, who replied that they will not.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition<\/p>\n<p>Hon Fofana also launched an attack against the opposition accusing them of spreading lies and falsehood about corruption and mismanagement in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c If that is the case, then where is Barrow getting money to build roads, schools, hospital and provide electricity in ways not seen under his predecessors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Gambia<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Nominated National Assembly Member and secretary of the governing National People\u2019s Party youth wing, Kebba Lang Fofana, has hinted that questions over who is going to be the presidential candidate is a \u201csubject of no discussion\u201d between the NPP and its allies because the candidate is \u201cabsolutely President Adama Barrow.\u201d He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":94381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,2366],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-94382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","category-to-homepage","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>Fofana Asserts Barrow&#039;S Candidacy is not Debatable - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-article-header-tag&quot;&gt; Africa-Press - Gambia. 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