President Barrow brands himself a grassroots president and shares what one guest told him

President Adama Barrow said ‘I call myself grassroots president’ as he vowed to fight for grassroots Gambians.

President Barrow while meeting with Balantas on Saturday said: “I call myself grassroots president. I’d a guest from Senegal, he knows a lot of presidents…

“He knows Macky Sall, he knows people like President Lasanna Conteh, even Bassoum who took over power in Niger recently he knows him.

“He (guest) told me, ‘you’re someone who one would visit and he would not feel you’re a president’. I see myself as grassroots president and I will fight for the grassroots.”

The president assured the Balantas that his government would support them at all times, even as he asked them to submit the names of the educated ones among them.