By Lamin Njie
President Adama Barrow would be disappointing the nation should he agree to resign after completing a three-year term, Dou Sanno has said.
President Barrow is under pressure to leave office in January as part of a promise he made back in 2016. He had pledged to serve for only three years and hand over power.
On Monday, thousands of Gambians took to streets to call for his resignation and for fresh elections to be called. The protesters who are members of pressure group Operation Three Years Jotna said Mr Barrow’s refusal to step down is an attempt to cling to power.
But speaking in an exclusive interview with Paradise TV, Dou Sanno a top adviser to President Barrow said the president would be disappointing the nation if he agrees to step down.
The president’s deputy political adviser said: “When plans were being perfected to say in three years times we’re going to enter into [elections], did they [coalition partners] forget that there is a constitution on this land that couldn’t be decided upon by seven people? The country’s constitution is more powerful that a gentleman agreement that nobody knew about.
“So even if President Adama Barrow is ready to say, ‘in three years I am going to go by the gentleman agreement and respect it’, I would tell him he is disappointing the nation. The nation is more powerful than individuals.”
