{"id":2467,"date":"2025-10-05T14:27:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/dont-be-bothered-by-those-leavingdarboe-tells-supporters-that-win-is-possible-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T14:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:27:40","slug":"dont-be-bothered-by-those-leavingdarboe-tells-supporters-that-win-is-possible-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/dont-be-bothered-by-those-leavingdarboe-tells-supporters-that-win-is-possible-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8221; don\u2019t be bothered by those leaving;Darboe tells supporters that win is possible in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>United Democratic Party (UDP) leader Lawyer Ousainou Darboe has shrugged off the recent wave of resignations that hit his party, insisting the departure of some members will not shake the UDP\u2019s foundation.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come just days after Talib Bensouda and several other UDP supporters quit the party to form a new political movement, a move that has generated political buzz ahead of the 2026 election.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking to supporters during a gathering in Europe, the veteran politician urged calm, assuring loyalists that the party remains \u201crock solid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sacked eight MPs in 2018 and a dozen key figures who used to run politics in our party left and joined the President, and UDP didn\u2019t die, it will never die,\u201d Darboe said to applause.<\/p>\n<p>He reminded his supporters of the 2018 internal rift, when President Adama Barrow dismissed him as vice president and several UDP lawmakers sided with Barrow, leading to their expulsion from the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, don\u2019t be bothered by those leaving,\u201d he told the cheering crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave faith and hope, we will win, and UDP will triumph in the 2026 election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; United Democratic Party (UDP) leader Lawyer Ousainou Darboe has shrugged off the recent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}