By Lamin Njie
President Adama Barrow’s aides will be putting pressure on him to stay on as president because it it paves the way for them to continue living a good life, Dr Ismaila Ceesay has said.
President Barrow is facing mounting pressure to resign in line with a three-year transitional term pledge but he is now of a mind to be in office for five years.
University don Dr Ismaila Ceesay told The Fatu Network in an exclusive interview the president wants to stay in office because of ‘sweetness of power.’
“When he came to power, he realised the privileges and protocols but there are other factors. People around him, they knew that; ‘our only chance of making it [in terms of] privileges is when President Barrow is in power, if he’s gone, our privileges are gone.’ So they will be putting pressure on him,” Dr Ceesay said.
The top political scientist said his view that President Barrow is not fit for the job of president hasn’t changed.
“My view on the way the president is running this country hasn’t changed. I’m still seeing the same amateurish way of running the affairs of this country,” Dr Ceesay said.
