BB’s diagnosis of Gambian politics: Myriad of bad leadership for decades

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By SHERIFF SAIDYKHAN

Bakary Bunja Dabo, commonly known as BB Dabo, Secretary General and leader of Gambia For All (GFA) party has said that the country has been facing myriad of bad leadership, disregard for rule of law and lack of transparency over the past decades.

The former vice president of the first republic under the late Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara was speaking to journalist at a press conference in Fajara.

He said their fundamental standpoint is driven to stamp-out the steroid party politics, and to calibrate the political system of the country.

”The focus of political discourse generally continues to be on petty partisan issues, rather than the articulation of clear ideas for fostering stable democratic governance with vibrant economic transformation in order to meaningfully address the challenges of unemployment, particularly among the youth, of poverty and of blighted prospects and such other pressing problems,” he said.

He added that GFA envisaged envisions healing the political fractures that has gripped the country for the past decades.

BB stated that their newborn party has joined the political fray to address the needs and aspiration of Gambians.

”It was against this backdrop that on July 13, delegates at a conference defined and agreed on a set of values and principles needed to be defended and promoted to avert the prospect of state failures,” he said.

Expressing despise for what he described as a failed state ruined by dictatorial rule for the past decades, Dabo said his party will soon lay the foundation to concretise it’s political structure in the warn up to the 2021 presidential elections.

He said GFA is committed to the youth sector through expanding the productive base of the economy to increase the substantial rate of youth empowerment.

”Our further ideals for solving the country’s problems are presently at an advance stage of elaboration, they will in the very near future, be launched in the form of a vision document outlining our ideas and plans for addressing the country’s problems across the broad.”

He said the issues to be tackled rang from governance, the economy, security, the environment, gender, social services, among other including acute challenges.