President Adama Barrow’s advisor Henry Gomez has claimed that Ousainou Darboe, the leader of the United Democratic Party, is incapable of ruling the Gambia.

Mr Gomez made the claim at a State House meeting between President Adama Barrow the country’s chiefs and alkalolus. 

“Ousainou cannot rule a nation. Ousainou is old already. Ousainou doesn’t have the power. If you give Ousainou this country, he will convert State House into a hospital and his office a pharmacy because he would always be on medical treatment,” Mr Gomez said. 

“If I see on the papers that ‘UDP wants to form a coalition with other parties’… A fish and a goat cannot be friends. You know why? A fish likes water, and a goat hates water. Halifa and Ousainou could never get along. So, let’s stop the trash talk. Adama Barrow developed this country, let’s accept it. Let’s vote for President Adama Barrow.”

He continued: “If you want to take this country and give it to other hands, you will make the country and our families suffer. 

“Someone who never gave you breakfast would be provoking you if he comes back to say he would give you lunch and dinner. He will not give it to you. We all knew each other.”

“If you see Ousainou Darboe jumping today, he had passed through somewhere… through the hands of Adama Barrow. We all knew how it was for UDP. 

“So, if today I rescued you from the rubbish dump, washed you clean, clothe you, put you in a clean house, give you food to eat and water to drink, if you return to the rubbish dump it’s your own doing,” he added.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba