By Saidou Baldeh
Mamma Kandeh, leader of the Gambia Democratic Congress (GDC) has urged coalition partners to be accountable and transparency to the Gambia people.
“They must not disappoint Gambians because when they were forming the Coalition they promised the electorates that Barrow will step-down after three years and I want to challenge them to come out and tell Gambians what they have agreed on,” he said openly at a well attended political rally in Brikama.
Without reservation he said President Barrow is out and about telling people he’s not stepping-down, whilst others are urging him to step-down, “I have not thought Barrow would think of forming his own political party and I am very confident if he had made it clear from the start that he was not going to step-down people like Halifa Sallah would not have supported his candidature.”
He said the views of the genuine coalition partners has been made difficult by few elements in the government who had never thought of been there but now want President Barrow to stay for fifty years.
“I believe we should be very careful about any decision we might take in the next presidential election, especially in the case of President Barrow. As far as I am concerned there is nothing that he (Barrow) has done in this country that would warrant Gambians to vote for him” again, he added.
The GDC leader also branded Ousainu Darboe’s comments that President Barrow should stay for five years as a monumental mistake, saying the president should not take that as a yardstick to hold on to power. “If President Barrow does not really want to honor the five years he would have condemn Darboe’s comments”.
UDP
Going by the memory lane Kandeh said President Barrow should remember that he was known to be thankful to the UDP because if it was Barrow alone he would not ever been a president. But “the UDP played all the needed tactics to ensure Barrow was elected in the Coalition primaries, the GDC knows about that. I am not supporting the UDP and I will not support them, but that is the truth,” affirmed.
“I want to ask Barrow when was it dark for him not to recognize the very people who made him what he is today. Barrow should stop beating his chest. I want to urge those who are beside him to help him and stop looking at their selfish interest. Barrow should also listen,” too, he added.