Issued Tuesday 28 March 2017
Alhagie
S. Darboe, the United Democratic Party candidate for Brikama North Constituency,
has expressed confidence that come 6 April 2017 he would be voted in as the
National Assembly member for his constituency.
Alhagie
A. Darboe spoke last Sunday at his residence in Brikama Dairruhairu in an
interview with this paper.
Alhagie
S. Darboe served in various capacities, from being the assistant Secretary
General to Secretary General of the Brikama Youth and Sports Association.
He
also served as assistant Secretary to the Appeals and Disciplinary Committee
from the 2002 to 2015.
Darboe
served in the Regional Sports Committee as a member for four years, and also
served in the Gambia Secondary School Sports Association as assistant and
secretary general from 2004 to date.
Darboe
served as technical committee member in the Gambia Football Association. He has promoted volleyball, male and female
basketball, female football during his tenure as secretary general of the
Brikama Youth and Sports Association.
Speaking
to this reporter, Alhagie S. Darboe said basically the “gross misrule” in the
Jammeh era, and lack of youth participation in national politics to effect
meaningful change the youths were yearning for, actually gave him no other
option but to fully focus on partisan politics.
The
UDP candidate added that he believes all the problems in The Gambia have
political bearings, which could not be resolved without getting to the root
cause.
“To
me, if the former president was not removed, nothing in The Gambia could be
regulated for the better,” he said, adding that they then came to the
conclusion that “the young people would play a pivotal role to ensure change is
effected through the ballot,”
He
stressed that he wasted no time to spearhead that challenge in the youth wing
of the UDP, and came up with structural revision and revitalization programmes.
Darboe
remarked that the confidence is beyond doubt, and that come April 6 he would be
voted in as the National Assembly member for Brikama North Constituency.
He
further stated that he has the conviction that he has a great deal of support
from the people in his constituency, saying there is every indication that he
has a “great deal of support from the voters”.
Darboe
concluded that the other four candidates “are not a match” for him.
