Saine was nominated as a National Assembly Member following the 2012 parliamentary election, as one of the five NAMs nominated by the President. Speaking in the National Assembly in December 2016, during the 2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis and ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia, Saine argued that internal disputes ended by foreign intervention tended to end in bloodshed. He said, "If you look at what happened in Liberia with foreign intervention, Syria and even in the Gambia during the 1981 failed attempted coup when foreign forces came, a lot of people lost their lives and properties."