A lawmaker has called on President Adama Barrow to immediately relinquish power and go back to his real estate business.<\/p>\n
Foday NM Drammeh said this appeal is to help President Barrow avoid dragging the country into chaos or be the architect of a possible conflict in December.
\nMassive protests are being organised in December in a bid to force the former property seller \u2013 who has intentions to remain in power for five years \u2013 respect his campaign promise of a 3-year rule and relinquish power.<\/p>\n
The National Assembly member for Tumana under UDP ticket said: \u201cPresident Adama Barrow made it very clear at different political platforms that he is going to honour the three years agreement. If he doesn\u2019t want to be the architect of this country\u2019s problem let him honour the agreement, let him just hand over the government to the Gambian people.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he agrees that people might say constitutionally, the president is mandated to serve for five years, \u201cbut the constitution is not saying that the president cannot resign from power\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBarrow made it very clear that he is going to sit for 3 years and go back to his normal business which he was doing before being made president, but nothing like that is likely to happen,\u201d the lawmaker told The Standard.<\/p>\n
The NAM said he was reminding the president that \u201cpower belongs to the people\u201d who should decide who leads them and not the president.
\nHowever, he appealed to all Gambians to strengthen the \u201cbrotherhood and sisterhood\u201d the country is known for so that \u201cpeace and tranquility\u201d continue to reign.<\/p>\n
Nominated members
\nMr Drammeh said he fully supports recommendations by the EU calling for abolition of nominated NAMs by the president in parliament.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe president should not be given that absolute power to nominate National Assembly Members. The nominated National Assembly members, we feel they are not representing the interest of the Gambian people but the supreme interest of the president,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A lawmaker has called on President Adama Barrow to immediately relinquish power and go back to his real estate business. Foday NM Drammeh said this appeal is to help President Barrow avoid dragging the country into chaos or be the architect of a possible conflict in December. Massive protests are being organised in December in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":2264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1065,1361,49],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-gambia-news-everyday"],"yoast_head":"\n