APRC is a structured party and it is a congress that will decide if Yahya Jammeh would be the party’s candidate at next year’s election, according to the interim leader of the party.
APRC last Wednesday held a press conference to state its position on the rejection of the draft constitution. At the news conference, the party also addressed questions over whether the former leader who is the party’s ‘supreme leader’ would be their battle axe in next year’s presidential poll.
The party’s interim leader Fabakary Tombong Jatta said of the issue: “The government has a right to accuse him with whatever they may accuse him but the government has no powers and no right to deny a citizen from coming back to his country. So the decision to come back is at his own discretion and will and of course all of us.
“Two, candidate for APRC, even when Yahya Jammeh was here, Yahya Jammeh does not put himself as candidate. APRC is a structured party. What happens is we go to a congress and the congress decides who should be our flagbearer.
“If at the time, even if Yahya Jammeh qualifies and congress decides otherwise, he will not be our flagbearer. If the congress decides that he is going to be our flagbearer, who is any other person…Because he is the supreme authority of the party. So this idea of flagbearer not flagbearer, it can happen to other parties. For us, we have a process.”
