{"id":18833,"date":"2022-07-12T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/mai-fatty-reacts-to-critics"},"modified":"2022-07-12T18:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T18:22:49","slug":"mai-fatty-reacts-to-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mai-fatty-reacts-to-critics","title":{"rendered":"Mai Fatty reacts to critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Ever since his recent appearance on Kerr Fatou TV show when he declared that on hindsight he should have endorsed President Adama Barrow in last year\u2019s elections from which he was disqualified, the leader of the Gambia Moral Congress Mai Ahmad Fatty has been lampooned by critics who accused him of being broke and looking for a job.<\/p>\n<p>In his reaction on his Facebook Page, Mr Fatty responded: \u201dI spoke my mind as a sovereign citizen and not anyone\u2019s proxy. Let me make it abundantly clear so that it\u2019s certain that I didn\u2019t misspeak, in answering a Kerr Fatou interview question: If I were to endorse a candidate outside GMC, it would have been President Barrow. Our Party was in court against IEC even during the elections and that took all our concentration. If all you could say was that he\u2019s job-seeking, climb on top of Mount Everest and announce it there. If all you could say he was broke, that reveals more about you instead. Anyone who doesn\u2019t support your party, you insult his patriotism and invoke a thousand devils. If you had power, you\u2019d have exiled political adversaries or silenced them in jail. Nothing you will say matters to me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Fatty who did not name any particular person or group, continued: \u201dWho I would\u2019ve wished to endorse as an individual citizen, shouldn\u2019t be your issue. That right of mine is proprietary. If I had endorsed your party leader instead, you would\u2019ve been celebrating me. This senseless intolerance has to end! You aren\u2019t Allah to make a pronouncement about my political future or decide my fate! So save your breath! When we laid down our lives and invested millions into Gambia\u2019s liberation, most loud mouths today were sealed then. Am not into anyone\u2019s personal struggle. We live in a democracy now\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Ever since his recent appearance on Kerr Fatou TV show when he declared that on hindsight he should have endorsed President Adama Barrow in last year\u2019s elections from which he was disqualified, the leader of the Gambia Moral Congress Mai Ahmad Fatty has been lampooned by critics who accused him of being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[2355,2361,3563,260,2641],"class_list":["post-18833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-critics","tag-gambia","tag-mai"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mai Fatty reacts to critics - 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