Lower Badibu representative Alhagie Jawara has shared why relations between President Adama Barrow and UDP leader Ousainou Darboe went down the drains.
Tensions began developing between father and son just a year after President Barrow took power – and it got to a head early last year when President Barrow sacked Darboe.
According to Alhagie Jawara, “the long and short of the conflict is a case of ‘get up, I sit… no, I will not get up’.”
“He (Darboe) wants power and Barrow also wants to stay in power. That’s the fact,” Jawara told The Fatu Network.
Jawara also discussed for the first time what led to his own sacking as a member of United Democratic Party. He said it was Darboe himself who advised him to support President Barrow at all costs.
He said: “At the initial stage in 2017 when we were elected, at our first party caucus, what our party leader told us is that what comes from UDP belongs to UDP and President Barrow is UDP. And by hook or hack, you people have to support President Barrow. At all costs. This is what Ousainou Darboe told us. If anybody don’t support President Barrow, know that you don’t support UDP government.
“He is the one who made me believe that Adama Barrow is somebody who is very loyal, Adama Barrow is somebody who respected him, Adama Barrow is somebody who is very honest. He is the one who said all these qualities about Adama Barrow, until it came to me that what this man is saying about Adama Barrow [is the truth]. And that’s what I also see in him.”
