By Lamin Njie
APRC interim leader Fabakary Tombong Jatta has said that President Adama Barrow is justified in his sacking of Ousainou Darboe and two other UDP leaders who were working in his government.
President Barrow on March 15 sacked Ousainou Darboe as the vice president of The Gambia. The president also terminated Lamin Dibba (Minister of Agriculture) and Amadou Sanneh (Minister of Trade).
Speaking in a exclusive interview with Gambian Talent Promotion on Tuesday, Jatta said UDP has been the bane of President Barrow.
He said: “Everyone knew that UDP ministers and President Barrow were at loggerheads. The president of the republic will not be able to take that. If the president sees that the effectiveness and the loyalty is not there, the president will sack you. Even if it’s me, I will sack you.
“UDP people were the people saying all the good things about President. Today they are the people saying he’s not good person. For us we have the right to dialogue with any political party. It depends on whether we agree or not. We are open to any political party to dialogue on the way forward for the country.
“What we have seen is that on the whole President Barrow’s problem is UDP. That’s how we see it. UDP were the people saying he’s good now they say he’s bad. So we think anything that was bad here, UDP was part of it.”
