By Lamin Njie
The UDP leadership in Tallinding constituency on Sunday branded the constituency’s national assembly member a rotten potato that needed to be removed from the bag.
Fatoumatta Jawara is among eight UDP members of the national assembly who have been expelled by the party after they were adjudged to have ‘conducted themselves in a way that was not in conformity with party principles.’
The expulsion of Fatoumatta Jawara, Billay Tunkara, Saikouba Jarju, Saikou Marong, Baba Galleh Jallow, Omar Darboe, Abdoulie Ceesay and Alagie Jawara is as a result of their alleged overt support for President Adama Barrow.
The UDP leadership in Tallinding on Sunday held a press conference where it hailed the decision of the party’s national leadership in sacking the eight officials.
“Fatoumatta leaving the party will not affect us in any way, it will only strenghten us.
“She’s given her back on the party, on Tallinding, and she even went to the point of saying she supports Barrow Youth Movement.
“We also have evidence she is one of those people who take bribes from the president to support his agenda,” a top Tallinding UDP official Bubacarr Jabbie while reading a statement said.
Another official blasted: “If you have one rotten potato in a bag, and you know it could harm the bag, what would you do? That’s what Fatoumatta is in the bag.”
The Fatu Network contacted Fatoumatta Jawara but she is yet to respond to a request for comment.
