Kalilu Camara has shared that he intends to make The Gambia food self-sufficient as he spoke for the first time on his plans to run for president next year.
The US-based Gambian, 50, told The Fatu Network on Sunday President Barrow doesn’t have the intellectual capacity to lead The Gambia.
“He might have the heart but he just doesn’t have it (intellectual capacity),” Mr Camara who travelled to the US in 1990 said.
Mr Camara is planning on running as a independent candidate backed by all of the country’s opposition political parties.
He said: “For the sake of Gambia, I think the Gambian people will be able to do that even without the leadership of the different parties. We have about 15 or so people who want to be leaders but if the people see that I am the one for the country, I think they will be able to embark on a grand scale shedding of party identity and coming together for the sake of the country and let me lead the country for the next five years and see what I can do. Gambia will be self-sufficient.”
