By Sainey Darboe
Former president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, displayed superior leadership qualities in combating the coarsening of culture in political discourse than president Barrow, UDP leader Ousainou Darboe has enunciated.
The leader of the United Democratic Party was addressing an accumulation of furious supporters who convened on his house to show solidarity with him, as the snipe-fest between him and president Barrrow’s camp reaches a frightening crescendo.
The veteran opposition leader was the subject of severe savaging by Fatoumatta Jawara at a meeting attended by president Barrow at Buffer zone.
Her words: “I have sacrificed and given my life to the party for 22 years and nobody had a problem with me.But when change came and things got better they found issues with me.
All the maternal and paternal insults that are being directed at me have been at the behest of a drunkard old man who drank alcohol until the skin on his lips came off and turned red. He is a kaffir (unbeliever)and an accursed old man.”
In his riposte, Darboe declared president Adama Barrow lost an opportunity to set a civil tone for political proceedings when he failed to issue a reprimand, saying: “Fatoumatta Jahumpa Ceesay made similar statements against me during a meeting attended by president Jammeh. Jammeh called her right there and then to issue a reprimand and forbid her from joining him for the rest of the tour. That’s what a good leader should do when such things happen.”
