By Lamin Njie
The spokesperson of the Gambia Democratic Congress has said that the continued collapse of the coalition has nothing to do with the interest of the country.
Mambanyick Njie in an exclusive interview with The Fatu Network said the continued disintegration of the coalition is as a result of a bitter tussle for power.
Njie said: “”It’s all political, it’s all politically motivated. Who should lead or who should be in power for the next five or 10 or 15 years. That’s the bone of contention. I have no doubt that the bone of contention has never been that these people have argued so much and so vigorously against each other in terms of what type of programmes or policies we should implement for the betterment of the Gambian people.
“So it’s just so unfortunate that while Barrow is there so focussed on maybe securing a second and a third term, others also are thinking that, ‘no, Barrow has betrayed the principles of the coalition, he shouldn’t be there.’ At the end of the day it is the Gambian people that will suffer.”
The GDC senior official chipping into the removal of Ousainou Darboe as the vice president of The Gambia and the sacking of two ministers said “constitutionally, the president has the power to appoint and dismiss his ministers.”
“However, one would have though that since this was a coalition government or is still a coalition government I would want to believe, that they would have stuck together; to understand that the country is bigger than all of them that are in that government. That the country is bigger than all these party leaders in those respective parties that constitute the coalition such that they would be more concerned about the policies and programmes that they would really want to implement to upgrade the lives of the Gambian people, to upgrade the standard of living of the Gambian people, to really focus on institutional reform as they have promised, to focus on the reform of the civil service, security reform,” he said.
