APRC first deputy leader Ousman Rambo Jatta has described the exiled former President Yahya Jammeh as an unreliable leader who can’t keep his word. 

Speaking to the Nation Today show, Jatta said: “I regret why I didn’t record those conversations with Jammeh. He [Yahya Jammeh] is very inconsistent. He can say this table is blue and turn to say it’s black.”

He blamed Jammeh for the split and ongoing bitter row in the APRC party after he refused to endorse a coalition deal with President Barrow’s NPP party. 

Jammeh then sacked the party’s current executive led by Fabakary Tombong Jatta and named a new body to run the party.

However the sacked body has refused to accept Jammeh’s demands and maintained that he was no longer the leader of the party he founded while in power. 

The pro-Jammeh APRC group continues their struggle over control of the former ruling party and have taken their fight to the court. 

However Jatta has said the party’s executive would not handover control to the pro-Jammeh breakaway group, telling them “to go to planet mars”. 

“Let them not just stop going to court, let them go to planet mars. But we are not going to hand them over this party. He [Jammeh] asked us to going into talks with Barrow,” Rambo Jatta said.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba