UDP’s huge congress got underway on Friday at Pencha Mi Hall with leader Ousainou Darboe who is seeking reelection calling for a grand effort to stop President Adama Barrow at next year’s presidential elections.
UDP chief Darboe insisted next year’s election will be a referendum on President Barrow’s ‘corrupt’ and ‘failed’ government.
“At the end of this important gathering, the Gambian people will have a clear understanding of what we propose, how we intend to execute the agenda set forth and more importantly how it will mirror their priorities,” Darboe told delegates of up to 1,000.
Darboe added: “The upcoming elections would be about clear choices, both for the nation and the individual voter. It will be a referendum on a corrupt and failed government that has squandered a golden opportunity to pivot our country.
“A referendum on a government that is resorting to the discredit tactics of the regime it succeeded and a referendum on a government that is seeking to divide the nation and use subterfuge and deception to fool just enough people to slide by and continue to amble along with their failed agenda and mediocre leadership.
“This administration has scuttled the reform agenda supported by majority of Gambians and this clearly demonstrates its incompetence. We must not allow them to cause additional damage. They take our limited resources to live large and feed the people with empty rhetoric.”
