Outgoing president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh has received a deadline from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to vacate office and hand over to president-elect, Mr. Adama Barrow by midnight tomorrow or face being ousted out of power forcefully.
ECOWAS is putting together a planned military intervention if Jammeh still stands by his words and refuses to relinquish power to the newly elected president. ECOWAS has also perfected plans to install Mr. Adama Barrow as president of Gambia come January 20.
Jammeh's political party, Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction on Thursday last week, approached the Supreme Court seeking an interlocutory injunction to stop the inauguration of Adama. In the application signed by the party's lawyer, Mr. Edward Gomez, the APRC asked for an order restraining the president from preparing, arranging, organising, conducting, partaking or participating in any manner or form in the swearing-in and/or inauguration of Adama Barrow as president of the Republic of the Gambia on January 19, 2017.
His application suffered a serious set-back as the Chief Justice of the Gambia, Emmanuel Fagbenle, refused to grant the application and the supreme court declined hearing Jammeh's appeal.
All efforts by Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari and other ECOWAS leaders to get Jammeh to step down peacefully proved abortive. For safety reasons, Adama Barrow was relocated to Senegal pending when the inauguration would take place. Adama will be brought into Gambia under heavy security by ECOWAS troops for his inauguration on Thursday.
Pictures emerged online recently showing Gambians vacating their homes and moving to neighbouring countries for safety should the present political situation of the country degenerate into violence.
...fighting a lost cause..........
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