The leader of Gambia Democratic Congress, Honorable Mamma Kandeh, has dismissed President Adama Barrow’s vice president offer as false.
In his meeting with the people of Jimara, President Barrow declared that during his bid for presidency he approached Honorable Mama Kandeh and told him to support him in his quest. According to him, his intention was to make him vice-president if he supported him at the time.
“As family and mates, we should have fought together and take over the government which would have been written in the history books all around the world those two friends, mates fought and took over a country,” President Barrow stated amid a jubilant crowd at his white house in Mankamang Kunda.
But responding to the president’s claims, Kandeh said: “That is false, number one. Number two, Barrow came to me in 2016 when he was selected as the candidate for UDP. Then the coalition was not even formed.”
“He wanted me to come and support them at party level, which is UDP. And I told him Barrow, I cannot do that and you know you cannot even get one percent in this country without the support of UDP,” he added.
“I have my party as somebody from Jimara, and you are also a resident of Jimara, why not you come and join me. How can he offer me Vice President when he did not win the election? And it was after that they went in for this coalition and he was lucky to be coalition candidate,” Kandeh explained when asked whether he turned down the vice president’s position in 2016.
“I cannot remember when I sat with President Barrow and he offered me anything, for any position, being the vice presidency or any other position. I can’t remember that, but if Barrow remembers when we sat and discussed, then he can clear the air for Gambian people to know where I said with him and what have we discussed or when he offered me the position of a vice president,” he said.