As tension continues to heat up the air in the small African state of The Gambia, west African leaders have intervened.
Adama Barrow meet with West African leaders
President Muhammadu Buhari and other West African leaders have
tactically taken Gambia’s president-elect, Adama Barrow, into safety
after a botched attempt to persuade President Yahya Jammeh to
voluntarily cede power after he lost the 1 December election, The News
Agency of Nigeria reports.
Mr. Jammeh’s tenure ends January 19. And both ECOWAS and the AU
have said he would cease to be leader of West Africa’s smallest country
by January 20.
President Buhari flew out of Banjul with Mr. Barrow on Friday, en
route to Mali, for what was called crisis talks in hopes of ending the
nation’s political impasse. Thousands of Gambians themselves are leaving
the country over fears of a possible military intervention to resolve
the impasse.
Reports say the president-elect would remain in neighbouring
Senegal until inauguration day when West African leaders would escort
him to Banjul swearing-in.
The Nigerian President had led a three-nation delegation to Banjul
earlier in the day, which his foreign minister, Geoffrey Onyeama,
admitted had not succeeded in getting Mr. Jammeh to step down.
Mr. Jammeh has made clear he will not stand aside until the
country’s Supreme Court decides on his legal challenge seeking to annul
the results of last month’s polls, which he initially conceded losing.
The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS), a 15-nation
bloc, has repeatedly called on Mr. Jammeh to respect the result of the
vote that delivered Mr. Barrow to victory, and step down after 22 years
in power.
“The ECOWAS team has decided to depart Banjul tonight in the company of president-elect Barrow headed for Bamako, Mali,” Nigeria’s foreign minister Onyeama told journalists.
Ghana’s former president John Mahama; Liberian leader Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf, and Mr. Buhari have spent the last month attempting to cajole
Mr. Jammeh into ceding the presidency.
Mr. Onyeama expressed West Africa’s “determination to find a
peaceful solution that accords with the constitution of The Gambia and
also reflects the will of the Gambian people,” and said this was best served by Barrow meeting representatives from all ECOWAS member nations.
West African heads of state gathered in Bamako for the Africa-France summit on Saturday.
The African Union said there would be “serious consequences” for
Jammeh, without elaborating, if violence or disorder were to break out
as a result of the deadlock.
And Mohamed Ibn Chambas, head of the UN Office for West Africa and
the Sahel, said Friday that ECOWAS would ask the security council to
approve the deployment of troops to The Gambia if Mr. Jammeh refuses to
cede power.
There are just five days left of JMr. ammeh’s five-year term, but he warned the international community on Tuesday that “undue external interference” was unnecessary.
The Supreme Court is unlikely to sit and hear his legal challenge
before May, ratcheting up tensions with Mr. Barrow, whose inauguration
is due Thursday.
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