PDOIS leader Halifa Sallah has asked those wondering what his party has achieved in its longtime existence to revert to 2016.
In 2016, seven opposition political parties including PDOIS stunningly sunk incumbent Yahya Jammeh, marking the birth of the so-called New Gambia.
Halifa Sallah speaking along his party’s 34th anniversary said his party played a big role in the 2016 change, as he asked critics to revert to it.
Mr Sallah said: “All of you should now be clear that those who say that PDOIS has been here for too long, what has it achieved. We say, ‘look at 2016’. The change that never happened in the history of the country.
“Before that change, for 55 years, the people had no means of changinv their manner of government through the ballot box because of their mindset. PDOIS embraced a change that will enable the people to have confidence in themselves, to know that power belongs to them and that with that power, they can be the architects of their own destiny.
“People did not believe in that. They did not believe in that in 1987, they did not believe in that 1992, they did not believe in that in 1997, they did not believe in that until 2016 when the change was effected. But throughout, people felt that the ballot can never change the power that be, because governments are powerful and unchangeable. That was the mindset.
“But PDOIS managed year in, year out, to establish all forms of strategies, coalitions, have input in all these coalitions. Instead of just building a party, we were building a force for change.”
