Gambia: Opposition asks EU to stop interfering in Gambia’s internal affairs
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The interim party leader of Gambia’s opposition Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction (APRC), Fabakary Tombong Jatta, Thursday warned the European Union (EU) to desist from any internal affairs of the country.
Jatta was speaking to reporters here Thursday after the presentation of a petition to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights following an organized mass protest by the party to demand the alleged signed accord for the return of former President Yayah Jammeh.
“The EU has to immediately desist from the Gambia’s internal affairs because we are a sovereign state and this is even an internal issue. Who will go to Europe and want to interfere in their country’s internal affair or tell them what to do; of course, no one can do that. So the European Union has to stop interfering in national affairs. “Yes we have evidence on their interference because any time we held a rally, the EU representative to the Gambia will comment negatively about us and this is only our concern as a country which we resolve and move forward as one people.”
“We also have internally pressure groups who did want us to be given a permit to protest and these are the victim center and one Madi Jobateh.
“Let us make it clear they do not belief in APRC and see us as vicious; that is fine; let them take their ideas but let them know that we cannot be shaken by them,” he said.
He said the presentation of petition letters to various regional and United Nation bodies by the APRC party was to remind them of the alleged signed accord for the return of former president Jammeh which, he said, must be implemented as possible.
“We have written several times to the various regional bodies reminding them of the agreed accord signed between ECOWAS and former President for the time of his return,” he said.
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