Former Gambia Action Party national president has lifted the lid on why he led GAP, telling For The People By The People Show Sunday unhappy executive members of the party asked the secretary general of the party to resign but he refused.
Musa Ousainou Yali Batchilly is the secretary general and party leader of GAP.
Tamsir Jasseh said: “I joined a political party and that was the Gambia Action Party. That didn’t work because I didn’t like the direction that the party was going. So I decided to step aside and I was in the process of looking for another party that actually shared my views. GAP on paper did but in practice, they didn’t.
“And what happened was the good chunk of the GAP executive were also unhappy. I didn’t know they shared my views. So they approached me to actually formed a new party of which they wanted me to lead. It’s an organization that is in the process of being registered and it’s called ‘Our Homeland’ and I am the presidential candidate of ‘Our Homeland’.
“I think basically was because on social media, we have observed some very negative things concerning the secretary general and party leader at the time, and who is still the party leader. And we thought that would harm GAP’s opportunity to become a viable party in the political spectrum.
“So we asked him to step aside so would look for a new leader, he was unwilling to do that and we thought there is no way we can do what we want to do and have the credibility that we want with this type of leadership. So I decided to walk away.”
