Thirty Years Is Not A Losing Streak; It's A Foundation – The Standard Newspaper

Thirty Years Is Not A Losing Streak; It's A Foundation – The Standard Newspaper

By Dr Bubacarr JB Touray There’s a lazy way to read Ousainu Darboe’s career, and a lot of people take it. Count the presidential elections, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2021, now 2026; subtract the wins, and you get zero. Case closed, they say. Not electable. But that arithmetic only works if you believe politics is a single race instead of a long argument a country has with itself. Darboe has been making the same argument since 1996: that Gambia deserves …