UDP leader Ousainou Darboe said he wanted the best for his ‘son’ President Adama Barrow, casting his mind back to a showdown meeting he had with the president in 2018 where he advised him to be mindful of certain people around him.
Speaking while welcoming Pa Manneh into UDP on Tuesday, Mr Darboe said: “Everyone wants Adama to have a good legacy in this country. The reason why we want it… People tell us that ‘it’s you the UDP people who gave us Adama’. So if Adama’s legacy is good, it’s UDP that will brag of it, as they will say he is our son.
“On November 5, 2018, we had a meeting, it was him and I and a mutual friend of ours. There were speculation by then but anything he says during the meeting I would tell him to be mindful of a particular person. I told he was his poison who would destroy him. I told him what those people are telling him is not taking him [anywhere good].
“I wanted to make him a great leader who could win the MO Ibrahim award but he did not give me a chance. Today, UDP members say he is my son and I don’t want anything bad to be said about him. Well, he is my son since he has not said I am no longer his father.”
