By Makutu Manneh
Kebba Madi Bojang, the leader of the National Democratic Party, said that a significant number of members of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction would abandon the party if its leadership pressed ahead with an alliance with the governing National People’s Party.
“If the leadership of APRC announces that they will continue the alliance with NPP, many of its members will leave the party,” Mr. Bojang said during an appearance on Kerr Fatou’s “Politic Kachaa” program.
Mr. Bojang said some members had already quietly distanced themselves from the party and were prepared to make their departures public once Fabakary Tombong Jatta, the APRC leader, formally confirmed that the alliance with the NPP would continue.
He went further, suggesting that the APRC was effectively imposing itself on a partnership the ruling party did not particularly want. “APRC is forcing itself” into the alliance, he said, adding that the NPP did not hold the APRC in high regard. He declined to elaborate, saying only, “I wouldn’t speak further on that, but I have a lot on it.”
Mr. Bojang also asserted that opposition to the alliance was not confined to the APRC’s rank and file, claiming that many within the NPP itself were uneasy about the arrangement.
Looking ahead to the December 5 presidential election, Mr. Bojang predicted that President Adama Barrow would fail to secure re-election. He pointed to a forming coalition among opposition parties as a decisive factor, saying it would constitute a formidable force regardless of whether all opposition parties joined it or only a handful chose to unite.
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