By Fatou Sillah
The Secretariat of the NPP-led Alliance has accused opposition parties of being primarily motivated by the desire to unseat President Adama Barrow, rather than presenting a coherent and unified policy alternative for The Gambia.
In a statement issued by its National Coordinator, Mai Ahmed Fatty, the Alliance alleged that the opposition’s central objective is to remove the incumbent without offering substantive solutions to the country’s challenges.
“Their only common agenda is the singular and consuming objective of dislodging President Barrow, and having nothing of constructive substance to offer in his place, they have elected to contest the narrative through the currency of fear and falsehood,” Fatty stated.
The statement further argued that opposition groups lack unity, leadership consensus, and a shared ideological foundation.
“They possess no unified platform. They have produced no consensus candidate. They share no common ideology,” he added.
The Alliance also characterized the opposition as being driven more by ambition than by a structured political vision.
“A coalition cohered by nothing more than the appetite for power is not a political movement in any meaningful sense. It is an organised ambition, and ambition unmoored from program is a danger to the Republic,” the statement continued.
Fatty emphasized that President Barrow’s re-election in December 2026 should be viewed as a developmental necessity rather than a routine electoral choice.
“President Barrow’s reelection in December 2026 is not simply an electoral preference to be weighed against alternatives. It is, at this precise and consequential juncture in our national journey, a developmental imperative,” He Said.
The statement warned that disrupting ongoing reforms could undermine national progress, cautioning against transferring power to what it described as a fragmented opposition.
“To arrest this trajectory and transfer the apparatus of state to a fragmented and visionless assemblage of political factions incapable of agreeing upon a common program would be to squander the accumulated investment of a decade upon the altar of mere displacement,” it noted.
The NPP-led Alliance also expressed strong confidence in its electoral prospects, predicting a decisive victory in the December 5, 2026, presidential election.
“The NPP-Led Alliance Secretariat is absolutely confident and very certain of a landslide victory in December 2026 and a historic defeat for the opposition. We have no equal, and no real contender in this election cycle,” the statement concluded.
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