By Christian Conteh
The Secretary-General of the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) and member of the National Assembly representing Serekunda, Halifa Sallah has emerged in public after almost two months of absence from the public space.
His appearance started with an online broadcast to party faithful and the general Gambian populace.
Hon Sallah started by informing the public that his almost two months-long absence from the public was because he and his wife were struck with COVID-19, but has now been cleared by health authorities to return to full public life
He revealed that during the two weeks he was given to recuperate he saw the need to revitalise and energise his party’s campaign and the party structure. He confirmed that the party structures throughout the country have been fully operationalized and institutionalized with core controllers handling them
“We have the Office of the Presidential Candidate with advisers, we have Administrative Core Controllers, we have Finance Controllers and Media Controllers, we have regional campaign coordinators and their team. The party is ready for work to ensure that we take charge of the destiny of our motherland,”Halifa Sallah said
He further revealed that he has requested from all those who were doing the work of coordination to look at the period that he was absent and the vacuum that was left.
“I have confidence that if the party agrees to allow me to occupy the public stage, to hold press conferences to move into the media, to ensure that the manifesto of the party is fully defended during this period it will add value to our guarantors,” Hon Sallah said
He noted that he desires to have a forum to fully defend their party manifesto and allow people to ask questions so that he clarifies all issues and then circulate the manifesto before taking the next step
“I am convinced that if we move in that direction all the members will be united in thinking and action, and when we move it will be a leap forward for our campaign,” Hon Sallah noted.
Halifa Sallah served as a spokesman and advisor to President Adama Barrow between 2016-2017. He is co-founder of the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism ( PDOIS) and was a strong critic of the Yahya Jammeh regime
