President Adama Barrow has launched a scathing attack on Lawyer Ousainou Darboe vowing that he will only leave power after the leader of the opposition United Democratic Party dies.

Speaking at the launch of National People’s Party political bureau in Brikama, Barrow took to the podium and said: “a man who could not get what he desires when he was young and youthful will not get it when he is old and frail. My father is done. I want him to accept that and we retire him. It’s time for him to go to the mosque. 

“My father came here and said if he becomes president, he will take the land given to me by the state. He said the place given to me belongs to the chief justice. But he is a lawyer and the chief justice is a lawyer. Let him go to the chief justice and ask him if that land has a title deed of chief justice. If that turns out to be true, I will return the land. He said someone should be allocated a land in a layout.”

Barrow continued: “He is not president I am the president and I know that more than him. Because the land of his wife was given to her by me. And that place is not a layout. And the time she applied for the plot, he was vice president. The papers were being processed and I sacked him before that process was complete. When I fired him, he sent somebody to me to ask that I should still give the land to his wife and child. I told Musa Drammeh the Minister of Lands that I am not like him [Darboe] and asked Musa to go and process their applications. 

“But I want to tell him one thing: since he vowed that he will take my land when he becomes president, I swear today that I will be president until Ousainou Darboe dies. That’s the only time I will leave power. But so long he is not dead, I will be president. I will leave only when he dies and we bury him that I will quit as president.”

Reporting by Adama Makasuba