GPDP leader Henry Gomez has handed down a grim assessment of UDP leader Ousainou Darboe by saying he is old and that State House risks being converted into a hospital if Darboe is put in office.
Speaking at State House on Saturday while President Adama Barrow was meeting with the country’s chiefs and alkalolu, Mr Gomez pleaded with Gambians to vote for President Barrow in December.
He said: “If you want take this country and give it to other hands, you will make the country and our families suffer. Someone who never gave you breakfast would be provoking you if he comes back to say he would give you lunch and dinner. He will not give it to you. We all knew each other.
“If you see Ousainou Darboe jumping today, he had passed through somewhere… through the hands of Adama Barrow. We all knew how it was for UDP. So if today I rescued you from the rubbish dump, washed you clean, clothe you, put you in a clean house, give you food to eat and water to drink, if you return to the rubbish dump it’s your own doing.
“Ousainou cannot rule a nation. Ousainou is old already. Ousainou doesn’t have the power. If you give Ousainou this country, he will convert State House into a hospital and his office a pharmacy because he would always be on medical treatment. If I see on the papers UDP wants to form a coalition with other parties… A fish and a goat cannot be friends. You know why? A fish likes water and a goat hates water. Halifa and Ousainou could never get along. So let’s stop the trash talk. Adama Barrow developed this country, let’s accept it. Let’s vote for President Adama Barrow.”
