President
Yahya Jammeh of Gambia has been given final warning and chance to
quietly leave office or be disgraced by coalition forces.
President Yahya Jammeh
West African leaders on Friday said they would travel once again to
The Gambia in a last-minute effort to convince election loser Yahya
Jammeh to cede power, a media report said.
It said the presidents of Liberia and Guinea were expected to
arrive in Banjul to give the ousted leader, who ruled the small West
African nation for 22 years with an iron fist, a last chance to respect
the constitution.
The announcement came hours after military forces of the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS) crossed from Senegal into
Gambia in an attempt to search for Jammeh.
On Thursday, President Adama Barrow was sworn into office in the Gambian High Commission in Dakar, Senegal.
Barrrow fled to Dakar on Saturday for security reasons.
Report says the defeated leader’s whereabouts remained unknown as at Friday.
On Dec. 14, 2016, representing the ECOWAS, presidents Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf of Liberia, Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, Ernest Bai Koroma of
Sierra Leone, and John Mahama of Ghana met Jammeh and president-elect
Adama Barrow in an attempt to manage a peaceful transition of power.
But those talks yielded no results.
Again on Jan. 9, Buhari lead two other West African presidents and other citizens to meet with Jammeh.
Buhari in his capacity as mediator in chief traveled with his
counterparts, Sirleaf and Koroma , as well as the immediate past
President of Ghana, John Mahama, to the Gambia to meet with Jammeh.
Jammeh lost the December, 2016 Gambia presidential election to Barrow.
He initially accepted defeat and congratulated Barrow but changed his mind and decided to challenge the outcome of the election.
-NAN
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