By Lamin Njie
The administrative secretary of the United Democratic Party has said that President Adama Barrow is behaving dishonestly towards his fellow coalition partners.
“People say it’s betrayal. I say this is not betrayal. This is what you call broad daylight cheating,” Alhagie S Darboe told a crowd of UDP supporters at a rally held in Bundung on Saturday.
President Barrow last week fired Ousainu Darboe as the vice president of The Gambia in a major move that also saw the sacking of Lamin Dibba (Minister of Agriculture) and Amadou Sanneh (Minister of Trade). The three men are all senior members of the UDP.
According to Alhagie S Darboe, President Barrow is in power today thanks to the efforts of UDP.
He said: “This is our sweat, it’s our tears, it’s our blood that he is sitting on. We want to tell the president that it is through our effort that the change came. So he cannot beat his chest to say that it’s the constitution that has given him the power to fire our people.
“If the other parties don’t speak up, UDP will. We all own it so if you say we should not be part of it, you are cheating us and we will not forgive you and Allah will not forgive you.”
