President Adama Barrow has shared the reason for his trip to Nigeria which has seen some Gambians speculate over what he was travelling to Nigeria for.
“Purposely the visit is just to go and update President Buhari. Gambia, we’re in a transition and now it’s almost four years and they’re our partners in the transition and Nigeria have been very very supportive,” President Barrow told journalists at the airport on Friday when he returned to the country.
“Personally, Buhari have been very very supportive to The Gambia. I deemed it fit to go there and update him [about] the state of affairs in The Gambia here. Basically it was all about that,” the president said.
The president travelled to Nigeria on Thursday on a courtesy visit which saw Nigerian media report that President Buhari told President Barrow helping him end Jammeh’s rule in 2017 was also about helping Ecowas.
“I was in Gambia physically at least two times. It was the least we could do to stabilize the region. We’ve accepted multi-party democracy, and we must comply with its tenets. By supporting you, we were supporting ECOWAS. We are dealing with our own troubles here, but we will continue to support you bilaterally, and through ECOWAS,” President Buhari told President Barrow, according to Vanguard Nigeria.
Ecowas troops including Nigerian soldiers were unleashed to The Gambia in January 2017 when Jammeh refused to step down. Jammeh then fled.
