Adama Barrow has said he will be finally going back to his country and to his people following the exit of Yahya Jammeh.
President Adama Barrow of Gambia
President of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, on Saturday said he was
returning to his country following Yahya Jammeh’s announcement to step
down as president.
Barrow on his twitter handle, @adama_barrow, said “As Yahya Jammeh
officially stepped down from office — I will be returning to my
homeland, the Republic of The Gambia. #NewGambia.”
Barrow also told the Associated Press in an interview on Saturday
that he would enter Gambia once a security sweep had been completed.
The new president also said that Jammeh would be leaving within
hours on Saturday and told Gambians who had fled the country that they
now had “the liberty to return home”.
Barrow on Thursday took the oath of office as Gambia’s new president.
He was sworn-in about 5p.m. Senegalese time at the Gambian High Commission in Dakar, Senegal.
Barrow succeeded Yahya Jammeh, who lost in the Dec. 1 presidential
election and refused to vacate office when his 22-year rule expired
midnight on Thursday.
West African mediators spent several hours in talks with him on
Friday after military forces of the Economic Community of West African
States (ECOWAS) stopped actions to remove Jammeh by force to allow
last-minute negotiations.
Jammeh, however, on state TV on Saturday, announced that he would
step down in the interest of the Gambian people adding that it was his
duty to “preserve at every instant” their lives.
He was also reported to have left the State House to join President
Alpha Conda of Guinea to the airport, to begin a new life in exile.
NAN
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