Seedy Njie has insisted politics is not child’s play after he helped his party swat aside the country’s opposition parties at Saturday’s by-elections.
NPP’s candidate in the Niamina West national assembly by-election overwhelmed his GDC rival Yero Jallow to hand the party its first elected MP. In Kerr Jarga where a councillorship by-election took place, NPP’s Awa Gaye tamed GDC’s Yama Cham, APRC’s Wuyeh Jarra and UDP’s Momodou Sillah.
Seedy Njie speaking to journalists shortly after Birom Sowe’s victory said: “We’re elated. We want to invite everybody on Monday at the Arch in Banjul where His Excellency our party leader will meet our first elected officials.
“So we defeated them in both elections, the GDC, the UDP combined. Politics is not child’s play, politics means serious business and we mean serious business and today we’re committed. We also want to congratulate the Gambia Democratic Congress for participating and also all the other parties, UDP and APRC as well for both Niamina and Kerr Jarga.”
