The leader of Gambia Democratic Congress, Mama Kandeh, has dismissed President Adama Barrow’s vice president offer as “false”.

President Barrow said in his Jimara meeting that during his bid for presidency he approached Mama Kandeh and told him to support him in the quest. 

According to Barrow, his intention was to make Kandeh his vice-president if he supported him at the time.

‘’As family and mates, we should have fought together and take over the government which would have been written in the history books all around the world that two friends, mates fought and took over a country,’’ President Barrow stated amid a jubilant crowd at his house in Mankamang Kunda.

But responding to the president’s claim, Kandeh said: “That is false, number one. Number two, Barrow came to me in 2016 when he was selected as the candidate for UDP. Then the coalition was not even formed.

“He wanted me to come and support them at party level, which is UDP. And I told him, ‘Barrow, I cannot do that and you know you cannot even get one percent in this country without the support of UDP.

“I have my party as somebody from Jimara, and you are also a resident of Jimara, why not you come and join me.”

“How can he offer me Vice President when he did not win the election? And it was after that they went in for this coalition and he was lucky to be coalition candidate,” Kandeh explained when asked whether he turned down the vice president’s position in 2016.

“I cannot remember when I sat with President Barrow and he offered me anything, for any position, being the vice presidency or any other position. 

“I can’t remember that, but if Barrow remembers when we sat and discussed, then he can clear the air for the Gambian people to know where have I said with him and what have we discussed or when he offered me the position of a vice president.”

Reporting by Adama Makasuba