Ceesay, who was due to contest for an Executive Committee Member position before withdrawing his candidacy made the remarks in an interview with reporters after their leader Sadibou Kamaso was defeated in the presidential position by incumbent Lamin Kaba Bajo.
“We will not do away from football because we lost the election. We will go to Annual General Meetings and make sure things go right. We have a lot of issues that we outlined such as making sure that projects that are meant for football are delivered,” he said.
“Football is our life. People have to understand that we eat football. We live football and we will die for football. We talk about football and spend our monies in football and anything we do has to do with football,” Mr. Ceesay stated.
He added that they are football stakeholders and would continue to live with football in ensuring things go right.
According to him, the election was transparent, adding that they did not have any agreement but to ensure that the voting process went fine on the Election Day.
“We were very hopeful after our analysis on the number of people we spoke with. Most of the people who gave us their words had a change of mind on the day of the election.”
Asked why they all withdrew their candidatures after the announcement of the presidential election, he replied, “it has always been the norm for the past elections, after the president’s position is announced, all the other candidates from the other camps would decline to give chance to the other executive members to continue their job.”
“This year’s GFF election was very technical. People have to understand sports politics is very critical. You talked to people who swore on the Holy Quran that they are with you but at the end of the day, they do otherwise.”
He added that this is sports politics in The Gambia, noting that they were not expecting to lose the election.
