One
of President Adama Barrow’s top advisers has said that Mr Barrow is defending
what belongs to him by continuing as president of the Gambia for 5 Years as per
the teachings of the country’s constitution.
Speaking
in an interview with journalists during solidarity march organized by Gambia
for 5 Years and Peace Building on Sunday, Henry Gomez, who is also the
Secretary General of Gambia Peoples’ Democratic Party (GPDP) said if Gambians
are using the constitution to beat Barrow every day, why wouldn’t he –Barrow-
also use it against them.
Gambia
for 5 Years and Peace Building organised the march to show solidarity to Mr
Barrow in support of him to stay in power for five years, just less than a
month after a pressure group called 3 Years Jotna also held a protest, asking
Mr Barrow to step down at the end of three years as agreed with the 2016
coalition leaders.
“Were
Gambians not there when we were talking about the 3 Years and all of them knew
that the constitution says 5 Years why didn’t we stand at that time and
challenge it, why now?” he asked
Dawda
Loum, a resident of Lamin said they were matching to defend the constitution
which give five years mandate to an elected President
“We
are doing this solidarity match to show to the people that Gambians want Barrow
to stay in office for 5-years as per the teachings of the constitution,” he
said.