President Adama Barrow has said an adviser doesn’t necessarily have to be a PhD holder, pushing back at criticism directed at his top aides.
The president has been much savaged for appointing nonentities are his closest confidantes.
But speaking in an exclusive interview with Star TV, the president said: “Sometimes they say it’s professors and PhD holders who should be your advisers. That’s how they think about it. But there are PhD holders whom you know are not loyal. Would such a person advise you on anything good? He would only throw you in a ditch.
“An adviser must be somebody who is loyal. Someone who would tell you the truth. And someone who is ready to work with you for the sake of your agenda, and is ready to take the bullet for you. Those are the kind of people you should make your advisers.”
