By Amadou Jadama
Ebrahima Darboe, an executive member of Rawdatul Majaalis, the renegade group of Islamic scholars and imams opposed to the Supreme Islamic Council, has called on President Barrow to see reason and solve the difference between the country’s Muslim leaders.
Darboe, who is also the president of the Njama Darboe Foundation, said Barrow should not listen to people who are feeding him with false political information.
“Mr Barrow should learn a lesson from the Jammeh era and reach out to all and not those who would only feed him with what he wants to hear politically. Let me tell President Barrow that the hammer that uprooted former President Jammeh from 22 years of power is still around,” he said.
Darboe said the logical thing expected of government is to reach out and find the truth whenever there is a row between two groups.
”What President Barrow must realise is that the vast majority of Muslim leaders including prominent imams and clerics which numbers ten-fold more than the few calling themselves Supreme Islamic Council recognise Sheriff Nano Hydara as their leader and no one else.”
Commenting on the recent SIC election which elected Essa Darboe as president, Ebrahima said what the new SIC president should have done was to seek a dialogue and unity among all Gambian Muslim leaders first before taking over. “In the absence of that, we still maintain our position that Sheriff Nano Hydara is our supreme head and we will continue to listen to him only and not the president of Supreme Islamic Council,” he concluded.
