By Lamin Njie
PPP leader Papa Njie has lifted the lid on how his decision to join UDP in 2018 came crashing back to earth.
Mr Njie, 50, joined UDP in 2018 shortly before the local government elections, setting his eyes on KMC mayor job – but when it became clear to him he did not stand a chance of becoming UDP’s mayoral candidate, he left the party.
He told QTV’s Viewpoint: “I went to a party [UDP] that I felt we as Gambians could develop KMC but during the process, there were a lot irregularities that I was not comfortable with.
“I wrote to them and said, ‘these are the things we’d all agreed on but you guys are deviating from it, and I am a man of integrity, I would not accept that’.
“So we pushed and pulled, pushed and pulled and I did the honourable thing by resigning.”
