By Lamin Njie
UDP leader Ousainou Darboe said today APRC , GDC and PDOIS supporters have donated to his food bank, rebuffing suggestions UDP came up with the initiative to boost itself.
“I can tell you I know people who are in APRC that put there money in it, people that you know are in GDC have put their money in this; people who are in PDOIS have put their money in it,” Ousainou Darboe told a group of citizens at his office on Pipeline, who donated D100,000 to the bank.
The UDP then insisted the initiative is for Gambians who need help amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Darboe said: “Those saying this is about politics, that’s the way they see it. You have come to say you’re contributing something in this which you know we are not doing for politics, not for UDP or to be given to UDP members. We say it’s going to be given to Gambians, people who really need it.”
APRC and UDP are known for their longstanding – at times bitter – rivalry that spanned over two decades.
