The secretary general of the newly created Upper River Region Football Association, Modou Lamin Sanneh has described Wednesday's Gambia Football Federation (GFF) elective congress as free and one of the best he has ever seen in the history of our domestic game. Sanneh was speaking to Observer Sports in an exclusive interview at the Paradise Suites Hotel in Kololi on Wednesday.

"The first thing that I cherished was the Federation makes every Gambian inclusive in football. So that is something that the Normalisation Committee needs to be applauded for," he said, while declining to reveal who his vote went to, amid speculations amongst football stakeholders that the URR delegates voted for defeated candidate Modou Moussa.

Quizzed further by this reporter on the current impasse in the administration of the game in URR where there seem to be two separate groups claiming to be rightful Executive Committee of its Football Association, Sanneh was unequivocal in his response. "When they say two groups, I can't understand, because if you are having a structure that is the time when you can be a group," he said. On how the URR Football Association intends to work with the new executive of the GFF, Sanneh stressed that his association is ready to work with anyone as long as that person does not go against their principles. Meanwhile, Alhagie Nyang, the vice chairman of the Basse Sub-Zone Sports Committee also told this reporter that he will do all he can to re-unite the different stakeholders of the region for the interest of football in the URR and the country as a whole.

Nyang called on the newly elected president, Mustapha Kebbeh, to help in resolving the wrangling in the region. "I will talk to Krubally to accept Furu as the president and for all of us to work as a team and move the game forward," he added.