By Fatou Sillah
The Secretariat of the NPP-led Alliance has rejected recent corruption allegations against government officials, describing them as politically motivated attempts to influence the outcome of the December 2026 presidential election.
In a statement issued by its National Coordinator, Mai Ahmed Fatty, the Alliance argued that the timing and nature of the allegations point to a deliberate political strategy rather than genuine concerns about governance.
“In an election year, the orchestrated amplification of corruption allegations that did not target demonstrable policy failures, but unnamed officials through anonymous and unverifiable sources, is a stratagem as ancient as contested democracy and as transparent as it is ignoble,” the statement said.
The Alliance further maintained that the claims lack credible evidence and have not followed established legal or journalistic standards.
“Every recent allegation of corruption thus far advanced against any official of this Government was promulgated without a credible verifiable source, without recourse to legal process, and in flagrant disregard of the elementary journalistic obligation to put the allegation to the accused before publication. These are not investigative disclosures. They are political projectiles fashioned in the garb of news,” the Statement added.
According to the Secretariat, the allegations are driven more by political ambition than by public interest. “The grievance is not civic; it is electoral. The injury being nursed is not to the public interest. It is to political ambition,” the statement asserted.
The Alliance also pointed to what it described as a coordinated pattern in the release and dissemination of the allegations, suggesting a calculated effort tied to the electoral calendar.
“When allegations arrive pre-packaged, coordinated across platforms, and timed to the electoral calendar, they cease to be expressions of concern for the Republic. They become instruments of a campaign. They are purely subjectively and opportunistically politically motivated,” the statement said.
The Secretariat concluded by defending President Adama Barrow’s record, highlighting what it described as significant democratic and developmental progress since he assumed office in 2017.
“President Adama Barrow, since assuming office in January 2017, has presided over the most consequential democratic and developmental transformation in this nation’s post-independence history,” the statement noted.
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