Citizens Alliance rejected as “totally false”claims of receiving vehicles from President Adama Barrow at State House in Banjul.

 “The leadership of the Citizens’ Alliance learned with dismay some allegations, making rounds in social media, being peddled against its party leader. 

“One of the accusations has it that our party leader visited President Adama Barrow without any authorisation from the party. 

“The purported message went further to quote Abdourahim Jallow as saying: ‘he went to meet Barrow without telling the Executive. Maybe he has contacted some of the executives but we did not come together to discuss the issue’.

“It is true that the decision to meet Barrow was never discussed at any prior executive meeting. 

“However, when the President requested to see Dr. Ismaila Ceesay, the latter consulted the Party’s National President, Mr. Dominic Mendy, for his advice. 

“Mr. Mendy advised him that the President can request to see any citizen if he so wishes and that Dr. Ceesay would have no option but to go and listen to what the President has to say,” Citizens’ Alliance said in a statement.

“Premised on this, Dr. Ceesay met the President. The second allegation has it that the President has given three pick-up trucks to the CA leader for the Party’s activity. This is totally false. 

“The Party wishes to make it categorically clear that CA did not receive any vehicles from the President for any reason or purpose prior to or after the December 2021 Presidential elections. 

“CA wishes to reassure its members and the general public that the Party is guided by principles and the leadership is resolved to safeguarding those principles at all costs. While celebrating the internal democracy we are known for, we continue to tolerate dissenting voices.

“Notwithstanding, we wish to remind all our members that CA, like every other organisation, has codes of conduct for its members and our actions and inactions are to be confined within those dictates,” the party added.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba