Former Nigerian President Dr Goodluck Jonathan, who is the chief-mediator in the draft constitution deadlock, is expected to fly out to the Gambia on March 8 to continue talks with political leaders.

This will be his third visit to the country since last November, but he is yet to get the political leaders to reach an agreement. 

Mamajick Njie, a top official of President Adama Barrow’s National People’s Party, said “one of the main problems is that whether this term of the president should be included in the new law book or not.”

Mr Njie, who was among delegates to Nigeria last month to broker consensus on the draft constitution with Dr Goodluck Jonathan, lashed out at political leaders who are in favour of the retroactive clause. 

He said those leaders are biased against President Adama Barrow for trying to include 10-year term limit enshrined in the 1997 Constitution after Yahya Jammeh was voted out in 2016 into the draft constitution.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba