Ebrima Sorie Bah has lifted the lid on why he left National People’s Party – as he rejoins the party.
Speaking in Busumbala at an NPP meeting, the former Gambia For Five Years and Building chief said: “I never asked President Adama Barrow to give me millions or a car. I only asked him to help me and I help him back. I will not talk about the give years. You know it better [my contribution]. His Excellency is the one who tells people I am his childhood friend, that we sat on the same chair in school. We both were 10 years old. I left my family and home for three years and came to help him. But it’s what the English call ‘Monkey works Baboon chops’. That cannot continue in happening in NPP.
“We were the founders of NPP and people are just coming newly from other parties are the ones managing the party’s affairs as well as ours who are the founders of the party. And you have people who surrounded the president and are blocking people from getting close to the president and benefitting from him. And these are people who cannot even bring 200 people to the president from their own villages. So President Barrow should be careful of these people.
“Things happened that do not help the president. Because if you marginalise those who fought and died for the president and bring your friends into the executive, you’re not helping the president. All of these people cannot be helped by the president.
“I am here. I do not have a job in government, I am unemployed. They gave me an allowance every month but they deduct it every month. The person who pays me deducted it and took it and the president did not stop my salary.
“All parties are after me. There is no opposition party that did not contact me [to join them]. But my executive always told them I did not leave NPP to join another party.”
