Political scientist Dr Ismaila Ceesay has said that despite President Adama Barrow has a right to form his own political party he should focus more on moving the country forward.
Dr Ceesay, a lecturer at the University of The Gambia, spoke Monday while providing sense to the United Democratic Party’s current political wrangling.
He told The Fatu Network: “Barrow as a Gambian has a right to form his own political party. For me I think he should be courageous enough to do that rather than trying to cling on to something that he has no say over anymore because he has resigned from the party.
“If he has ambitions – intentions to run again – I think the easier thing is for him to go and form his party. Nobody is going to stop him from doing that than trying to create tensions here and there. And now Gambia is losing because what we are seeing is that attention is not paid in nation building. They are paying too much attention on partisan politics rather than focusing on what he has been elected to do.”
Dr Ceesay speaking further said the current UDP falling out “has clearly to do with President Barrow.”
“President Barrow, we should understand, was elected as a coalition candidate to oversee a transition, to do reforms, to bring democratic institutions. Therefore, [The] Gambia has more to lose in this tussle because the time and the energy that the government should be spending to really reform this country, to move this country ahead is being spent on petty politics,” he said.
