By Lamin Njie
Operation Three Years will stage a fresh protest on 20 January 2020 if President Adama Barrow refuses to leave office, Sheriff Ceesay has said.
“The message is that he has to respect the three years. Without that, we are coming back on the 20th of January in that we will never go back until he resigns but there is a room for dialogue from now to the 18 of January,” the top Operation Three Years Jotna official told
The Fatu Network on Monday as thousands of Gambians took to the streets to demand President Adama Barrow step down from power
President Barrow in 2016 promised political parties that backed him that he would preside over a transition government of three years. He has now changed his mind saying he will be in office for five years ‘whether one likes it not’.
Meanwhile, Operation Three Years Jotna has handed over its petition to President Barrow through government spokesperson Ebrima Sankareh.
In it, the group demands an announcement from Mr Barrow before the 19 January 2020, as to when “you intend to hold the Presidential elections agreed, in which you will not be a participant and will remain impartial without favour for any candidate of that election and will hand-over power honourably and graciously to whoever emerges as the victor of that election.”
