The Gambia President, Adama Barrow yesterday fired his Vice President, Ousainou Darboe with immediate effect, appointing a replacement.
A statement from the Office of the President said Darboe has been relieved of his cabinet appointment as Vice President of the Republic of the Gambia with immediate effect.
Even though the statement puts it down to a presidential prerogative, the underlying reasons for the latest move are not immediately known.
President Barrow who has been in power since 2017, appointed his third Vice President in the person of Isatou Touray, who until the new appointment held the health portfolio.
Isatou who is expected to serve as Vice President and same time overseeing the Health Ministry will be the second woman Vice President in three years.
The statement also revealed that two other political allies of Darboe, Agriculture Minister Lamin Dibba and Minister to Trade, Regional Integration, Industry, and Employment, Amadou Sanneh were also fired by the President.
Recalled that Darboe was a key member of the opposition coalition that beat long-serving Yahya Jammeh in December 2016 polls at the time, the coalition picked Barrow as candidate because Darboe was imprisoned.
He was released days after Jammeh was declared loser of the polls and later appointed Foreign Affairs Minister, a post he held till June 2018 when Barrow appointed him his Vice President replacing a former minister, Fatoumatou Jallow Tambajang in the role.
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