UDP leader Ousainou Darboe has said he doesn’t owe Gambians an apology over his comments of legal action against anyone who tried to have President Barrow step down at three years.
President Barrow had initially pledged to serve for only three years but UDP leader Darboe balked at any attempt to have Barrow leave power at three years as talk intensified for the president to honour his promise. This was in the early days of the coalition government.
But speaking to The Fatu Network on Wednesday, Darboe stood his ground saying: “If to say that anybody who wants to use force… Bring me the agreement and we test it against the constitution. If that is offensive, then I owe no apology to the Gambian people because I am going by the constitution of this country.
“After all, we came in to say there should be a proper constitutional order, there should be adherence to the constitution.
“So if my statement that adherence to the constitution is regarded as emboldening Barrow then those who profess to be constitutionalists are really not constitutionalists, they’re something else. So I have no regret about it and I do not apologise to anybody about it, for standing by the constitution.”
