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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Presidential adviser Hendry Gomez has responded to UDP leader Ousainu Darboe who recently described him as a \u201c incompetent and an appendage\u201d person.<\/p>\n

In an expansive interview with The Standard, Mr Darboe said people who cannot live on their own will always be an appendage to others, referring to Mr Gomez.<\/p>\n

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But in his response the deputy youth presidential adviser, who initially said he has nothing but respect for Darboe and would not talk about him, later threw punch back to the UDP leader: \u201cI do not intend to throw words at Ousainu but to say that I am incompetent, well let him know that I am even more competent than him. He might have gone to university and learned this or that but I think if he was competent, he himself would not have gone to jail because he would have known that taking to the streets without permission is against the constitution and Yahya Jammeh wouldn\u2019t have locked him up. But again, it is democracy, so let Ousainu say what he wants,\u201d Henry said.<\/p>\n

Mr Gomez questioned why if he is \u2018good for nothing\u2019, as claimed by Ousainu, did Darboe still went ahead to work with him in a coalition in 2006.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to say that leaders like King Solomon, King David, Muhammad, Jesus Christ in the Islamic and Christian scriptures have never been to school, but they were born leaders and what I want to tell Ousainu is that I am a born leader,\u201d Gomez said.According to Henry, people are free to say whatever they feel in a free democratic society as long as they don\u2019t insult anyone.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s democracy, as long as he doesn\u2019t insult me, or insult my family or my elders, then I have no problem with Ousainu. He has the right to criticise me, whether he is speaking the truth or not. My wife\u2019s surname is Darboe and so I will not disrespect Ousainu. It\u2019s politics. After the presidential election, nobody heard me talking about Ousainu. Ousainu is our father. He should have better things to do than sitting down and directing criticisms at Henry Gomez. I haven\u2019t insulted him. What I said is that Allah took him to paradise and he decided to go back to hell. And that is the truth, whether he likes it or not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. Presidential adviser Hendry Gomez has responded to UDP leader Ousainu Darboe who recently described him as a \u201c incompetent and an appendage\u201d person. 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