The members of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) are set for their national congress on 28th-30th December, 2018 at YMCA Hotel on MDI Road in Kanifing to revive the party to serve The Gambia for better future.
The party made the announcement at a press conference yesterday at Latrikunda Germany which it stated that the presser was meant to inform the public about their first congress on 28th-30th December at YMCA Hotel on MDI Road in Kanifing.
According to officials, each of the 53 constituencies across the country will be represented by ten delegates comprising men, women and youth. In addition, members of the central and executive committee as well as the party militants will grace the occasion.
It can be recalled that PPP has ruled the country for more than 30 years but later on it was toppled by a military junta called AFPRC. However, the junta began dictatorship governance straight away after the successions of that topple
Speaking at the press conference, the Acting Secretary General and National Coordinator for PPP, Omar A. Jallow said that the congress would enable them to elect some of the party’s supporters to steer various organs within it, adding that the first step of his party after the congress will be to educate and enlighten Gambians especially the young people to ensure that they know the vision and mission of PPP and the way forward pertaining to national development.
He recalled that during the PPP government, farm products such as groundnut which is the main export crop for the country was marketable for farmers because the then government used to purchase all the groundnut produced by farmers and made agriculture profitable.
He then added that by that time many people from the neighbouring countries used to come to the Gambia to work for Gambian farmers owing to the status of farming in the country. He noted that after Mali, the Gambia became the first cotton producing country in the sub- region.
Speaking further, OJ Jallow, said during the PPP regime, the Gambia was among the most peaceful and democratic country in Africa because many refugees from brutal dictatorship governments in the continent used to come to the Gambia to safe their lives, noting that the PPP government was one of the most clean administration in Mother Africa.“This is the government we want to bring back in the Gambia,” he revealed.
Author: Sulayman Waan
