UDP leader Ousainou Darboe has repeated that his party is not a Mandinka party contrary to misgiving in some quarters.
“And I’m particularly happy that Mr Willan joining with us here is sending message, loud and clear, to the Manding-phobics. That Mandinka-phobia has no place in this country. You are demonstrating that United Democratic Party is constituted, is comprised of several tribes in this country. And those who are on the false track with their Manding-phobic agenda, you have shamed them. This party is not a Mandinka party,” Darboe said while welcoming former ‘Barrow For Fives Years’ executive official Abdou Willan.
Willan joined UDP along with Omar Sanyang last week – who was also a member of the pro-President Barrow group’s executive.