{"id":94985,"date":"2026-02-26T16:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/lamin-touray-claims-ndp-gains-secret-support"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:31:47","slug":"lamin-touray-claims-ndp-gains-secret-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/lamin-touray-claims-ndp-gains-secret-support","title":{"rendered":"Lamin Touray Claims NDP Gains Secret Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong> <\/span><b>A senior member of the National Democratic Party, a breakaway faction from the National People\u2019s Party, said this week that his party\u2019s push to unseat President Adama Barrow is quietly supported by figures within the government and the ruling establishment.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lamin Touray, speaking on the program \u201cPolitic Kaacha,\u201d asserted that some officials who remain publicly aligned with the president are privately assisting the National Democratic Party, or N.D.P., in its political organizing.\u201cThere are people still with the president, but they are secretly supporting and empowering us,\u201d Mr. Touray said. \u201cThey are unable to come out in the open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that some of those sympathetic to his party\u2019s cause may even maintain close proximity to Mr. Barrow, while opposing what he described as a potential third-term bid. Their motivation, he said, was not personal animus but a belief that the president should step aside.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Touray\u2019s remarks underscore mounting tensions within the governing coalition as political maneuvering intensifies ahead of the next electoral cycle. The N.D.P. emerged as a splinter group from the N.P.P., reflecting internal disagreements over leadership and direction.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Touray also criticized the Independent Electoral Commission, accusing it of applying inconsistent standards to his party\u2019s registration process. He said that when he helped gather voter data for the registration of the N.P.P., the process was completed in less than two months and without what he described as the current level of scrutiny.\u201cIt did not even take more than two months to register N.P.P., but N.D.P. is almost a year,\u201d he said, adding that the commission had told them its procedures had since changed. \u201cBut NDP is almost a year. IEC told us they have changed their laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the delays, Mr. Touray said the N.D.P. intends to contest the next election regardless of whether it secures formal registration in time, noting that the country\u2019s electoral framework allows individuals to run as independent candidates.<\/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. A senior member of the National Democratic Party, a breakaway faction from the National People\u2019s Party, said this week that his party\u2019s push to unseat President Adama Barrow is quietly supported by figures within the government and the ruling establishment. Lamin Touray, speaking on the program \u201cPolitic Kaacha,\u201d asserted that some officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":94984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-94985","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>Lamin Touray Claims NDP Gains Secret Support - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-article-header-tag&quot;&gt; Africa-Press - Gambia. 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