Saihou Mballow has responded to comments by Mai Fatty that the cellphone lines of opposition leaders have been tapped allegedly on the direct orders of President Adama Barrow.
The GMC leader made the claims late on Wednesday evening writing on his official Facebook page alongside a picture of the president.
Saihou Mballow who advises the president on youth matters stated: “That’s not correct. As politicians, let us be honest. Let us not bring back what was happening in the past. For one to sit and come up with false and misleading information. The reason why people were doing that is because we had a dictatorship. We thought that was the only way we can eradicate dictatorship. Because he (Jammeh) was killing people, so we also adopted a strategy by tarnishing his image so that Gambians can disown him.
“What significance, what popularity does the GMC have for the president to go after them and tap them? As it is now, I don’t think Mai Fatty can conduct a successful meeting in this country. He can’t. He doesn’t have that following. People are defecting from his party coming to NPP. So what would warrant the president to go after GMC? It’s not a popular party. The party is almost next to nothing in this country.”
