By Lamin Njie
Omar Jallow has said that it is a normal thing that Ousainou Darboe has been sacked as vice president of The Gambia.
“It’s a normal thing. If that [Darboe is a political heavyweight] was the case, why didn’t he win for 20 years contesting [against] Yahya Jammeh,” the former PPP interim leader exclusively told The Fatu Network as he dismissed suggestions that President Barrow was committing a political suicide with the move.
OJ said: “For me I said because we as responsible leaders refused to live up to the agreements or to the principles of the agreement that is why these things are happening. So if the president sat one day and sacked a vice president and four ministers, Ajaratou Fatoumatta Tambajang, myself, Gomez of the youth and sports, DA Jawo of information and health ministry, all four ministers and the vice president were sacked nobody said anything, why should anybody say anything now.”
According to OJ, it is the UDP and Ousainou Darboe who are responsible for the disintegration of the coalition.
He said. “It’s the UDP. That when Ousainou Darboe was released from prison, the first statement he made is that he will sue anybody who talks about three years. That means he was going to sue all parties including UDP because UDP was part of the process and part of the agreement. And I thought what he should have done is to go and consult the chairperson and the vice chairperson.
“The chairperson was Mrs Tambajang and the vice chairperson was Dembo Bojang and let’s called an executive committee meeting of the coalition, let us discuss, let him advise us as lawyer but not to go on air and the newspapers saying that he’s going to sue all of us.
He didn’t betray any of us, we betrayed ourselves. We elected him. We should not have allowed as I said Ousainou should not have allowed the coalition to be fragmented when he said the parliamentary elections will not be contested under the coalition. That’s where it started and it’s from the UDP, not from Barrow.”
