The Gambia Democratic Congress has given reasons why hundreds of people recently moved to the party from at least three other parties.
Opposition GDC announced on Monday that 278 people left the United Democratic Party to join the party.
“This is exactly a fact. In fact the number that was announced was a little bit less than the actual figure. [They’re] from the APRC, NRP and the UDP,” the spokesperson of the party Momodou M5 Jallow told The Fatu Network on Wednesday.
According to Mr Jallow, the GDC believes in pragmatism saying “we’ve been practicalising things before we verbally say them and so this is what is convincing people to come to the GDC.”
He said: “What we are doing is to convince Gambians to see that the Gambia Democratic Congress is the right political party. What they (defectors) were saying [is that] a lot of them have been in many of these other parties for a good period of time but to them they have not seen anything that they could present or at least that have been presented to them even as chairpersons or heads of women groups [sic].
“GDC we are doing it before we say it [sic]. In fact as I’m talking to you, the two boreholes we promised for Mamouda and…. Right now the materials have been delivered for the work to start. In the next two weeks or so, we are assuring them they will be drinking water from the boreholes dug by the Gambia Democratic Congress.”
