The founder of the pro-President Adama Barrow movement ‘We’re Barrow 2021’ Sheikh Sidia Bayo has said UDP Ousainou Darboe is responsible for the nation’s current turmoil of the three years and five years.
President Barrow was supposed to be in power for just three years according to a 2016 deal but UDP leader Darboe threatened to drag to court anyone who tries to ask President Barrow to resign after three years. He insisted the president should serve for five years.
Mr Bayo who was a political activist during former President Jammeh’s rule told The Fatu Network: “Who convinced Adama Barrow to be in office for five years, which political leader? Ousainou Darboe as UDP leader. You remember the statement. ‘Everybody who is trying to force Adama Barrow, to remove him from power I am going to bring you to court’.
“He said it, it convinced him. Ousainou is my uncle but we’re in politics, we are not here to joke. Ousainou Darboe is the one who advised him. I respect Ousainou Darboe, he is my family but when it comes to the national interest, especially to prepare our generation to understand what’s going on in our political arena, the way everything was set up during the last 20, 25 years, Ousainou did a lot for this country and we have to tell him thank you.
“But when you’re frustrated, sometimes you act in such manner that you don’t have to do that. But he is the main reason for the turmoil we are inside today regarding three years and this five years.”
