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| Kebba Yoro Manneh (center of 2nd row, in light-blue dress and white hat) attends press confab shortly after delegates cast their ballots (Photo credit: B.B.Baldeh/GFA/Facebook) |
Kebba Yoro Manneh, a presidential hopeful of The Gambia Football Association, GFA, was barred from attending the April 13, 2013 Constitutional Adoptive Congress of the country's football governing body.
The social commentator and former GFA sectary general tried to force his way past uniformed men and women on guard
saying: “I am only coming to observe as an upcoming president”. However, he was
denied entry to the conference hall.
“I’m here to make sure that Omar Sey and his Normalisation Committee
are out of here as soon as possible because we are tired of the normalization,”
Manneh said.
The GFA will elect a new executive on June 29, 2013, fifteen months after the previous executive committee was sacked by The Gambia Government.
During Saturday's congress held at the Friendship
Hostel in Bakau, GFA delegates voted 27 to 20 to finally adopt the new constitution. One person abstained from voting and five eligible voters didn’t
turn-up at all.
Bias and unprofessional
Mr Manneh also accused local radio journalists Musa Ceesay and Lamin Cham of
bias and unprofessional in the way they present their news.
“Some of you journalist are trying to undermine my integrity which is
unacceptable because you are there to inform, educate and entertained and not
to criticize or be bias,” Manneh argued.
Less than 24 hours after his outburst, Mr Manneh was a guest at Afri Radio sport programme hosted by Musa Ceesay. He was answering questions
regarding his candidature for the June election.
“The fact that Kebba Yorro Manneh was not allowed to have access to the
venue of the congress could take a negative toll to his presidential
aspiration,” sports journalists told The North Bank Evening
Standard.
A December 12, 2012 adoptive congress by the tiny West African country’s football governing body
on the new constitution was labeled “biased” and “unrealistic” by FIFA,
football’s world governing body.
Written by Modou S. Joof
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