(JollofNews) – The Peace and Security Council of the African Union Friday told President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia to handover power next week or face serious consequences.
Mr Jammeh, 51, has ruled the Gambia for 22 years and is due to handover power next week following his surprised defeated in last month’s general election by opposition candidate, Adama Barrow.
It added that Mr Jammeh will not be recognised by the union as president of the Gambia after January 18th. It therefore urged him and his government to refrain from any action that could undermine the process leading up to the swearing-in of the President-elect Adama Barrow on 19th January 2017.
The council also reiterated its call to the Gambian stakeholders, including the defense and security forces, to exercise utmost restraint and to strictly abide by the constitution and uphold the rule of law, including the respect for the freedom of speech.
It said it will follow with keen interest the outcome of the visit to the Gambia by the ECOWAS Mediation, with the participation of the AU and the UN, and has agreed to meet as soon as possible, to assess the post-electoral situation in the Gambia and take appropriate decisions as may be deemed necessary.
Well done! AU. The UN, USA and EU should also follow suit as that will send a clear signal to Jammeh and his cohort that their days of acting with impunity is over. That they will not be allowed to subvert the will of the people. And any Diplomat who did not pledge allegiance to the new Government should not be recognised by the international community. Come the 19th Jan 2017 if Jammeh becomes a rebel leader, the international community should freeze all his assets and those of his associates. He should be starved of funds and an international arrest warrant issued for his arrest for possible prosecution at the ICC. Jammeh will be a threat to world peace if he has access to funds as he may use it to fund terrorism in the sub region and against Western interests in the region. Jammeh is unhinged and has a warped sense of entitlement and has all the characteristics of a potential terrorist. The West should keep a close eye on him.
If jammeh yield to this warning then that is for him. And he will cause major blow to his hencemen and supporters the damage will not end to himself alone but instead it will go beyond imagination, this kind of fight against the world for thing they valued, doesnt worth it.
If jammeh yield to this warning then that is for him. And he will cause major blow to his hencemen and supporters the damage will not end to himself alone but instead it will go beyond imagination, this kind of fight against the world for thing they valued, doesnt worth it. Count down is on. Show down is is likely unless he choose peace and follows the law and constitution.
Hello Fellow Gambians,
I, Adama Barrow Independent Candidate representing the Coalition of eight parties hereby declare that the planned innaugration schuled for 19th January be postponed until when the ruling can be made on Petition filed by the APRC Party.
The reason is, i want to go into office with a clean sheet. If i had known that the self exiled Gambians in the Diaspora had bribed the corrupt IEC Chairman Alieu Momar Njie before December 1st election i would have withdrawn my candidature. Democracy is not about cheating its all about being clean and to clean the mess other people left. On that note i am declaring the scheduled innaugration be halted until further notice. No urge for ascending to the presidency when the peace and tranquility of our beloved Gambia can be endangered.
Many thanks for your cooperarion.
Yours
ADAMA BARROW
Candidate Independent Coalition.
You are lying fuck your mum
Please don’t waste your energy on this simpleton.
Change your tune you simpleton. If you can’t make an intellectual argument then just take your medication and go to bed.
These are not the words of Adama Barrow. Whoever has hatched these lies and attributed them to Mr Barrow is a projammeh and wants to poison the international community’s mind about the elections .
Shame on you.
What a stupid rat are u jammeh must step down or senegal has commandos that can kill him easly
You must have been born a deaf. Your mother conceived you by the buttocks.
President yaya want to spoil the country that he try to build over the years is not fair Gambia is not his prose no property if he wants to live long let him go to Nigeria and forget about the country problem his time is over and let the citizens live their lives in peace and harmony thanks.
BABILI MANSA YOU ARE THE CHOICE OF THE MAJORITY. WE ARE NOT BLIND AND WE ARE NOT TRAITORS 22 YEARS OF PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMEN IS WHAT YOU GAVE US.
Jammeh Musa, we are patriotically by your side from now and on and we are ready to die in defending our integrity with the last drop of our blood.
To all those warmongers warning to all of you. Remember that no cockroach will be be spared. The foreign forces you are inviting to help you secure the pesidency for you will be met with an unexpected resistance which will surprise all and sundry. They are relying on their conventional armament superiority but they most know that conventional warfare and guerrila war tactics are not thesame. Senegal you are counting on why cant they uproot the insurgency in Cassamance. Ask the Nigerians why it took them so many years without defeating the Boko Haram.
If they think that if they invade The Gambia to oust Jammeh forcefully and install Barrow is going to be that easy and quick, no its going to be a long battle which they cant sustain and they will end up abandoning The Gambia with their mess.
This is a warning to all the traitors both home and abroad to know that no cockroach will be spared, so let them bite what they can chew or else they will all be choked.
WARNING WARNING WARNING
BE AWARE OF THE DANGERS YOU ARE CREATING. DONT LIVE IN A GLASS HOUSE AND YET THROWING A STONE.
If u want u called yr self killer kanyi u guys at nor soldiers you guys are scout just remind yr self farafenne attack just six people control yr barracks let me warn u,you ar a big mother fucker I think u family in d Gambia u guys are so wicket to yr self
AU is showing Leadership in Gambia. EU and UN should complement Ecowas and AU efforts in solving this Gambian Election Dispute. AU should be consistent in handling Election Disputes though. Jammeh was being encouraged by Zambia’s Lungu to manipulate the Courts and cling to power. Four months after a disputed Election in Zambia President Lungu has been manipulating the Court processes to kill the Election Petition. AU and SADC observed the Zambian Elections and its high time Lungu is told that if the Petition is not heard and disposed off in 30 days Lungu will be de-recognised as President of Zambia. Lungu is bad example to the whole of Africa. AU should urge SADC to emulate Ecowas and play a proactive role in solving electoral disputes in its member countries. SADC is aloof and is not doing anything about Election Disputes in Zambia and DRC. SADC should take a leaf from Ecowas which is doing a splendid job in its Region in protecting the Will of the People. All the same Well done AU and ECOWAS!! SADC should wake up and smell the coffee.
Don’t comment on issues u are ignorant on. Am a Zambian and let me correct u. while Jameh lost in official results announced by electoral commission, Lungu was declared winner by electoral commission and the results by recognised by European Union,Sadc,AU,America and church and Muslim observer mission. hh the opposition leader took the case to the constitution court of which the law says the case must be disposed off in two weeks.for two weeks MR hh kept playing games with the court asking for appointments till the two weeks passed and the case was disposed.he took the case to the high court and ended up at Supreme Court which all dismissed his case. he has now taken the case to the ICC,which is investigating him for ethnic crimes after he tod his tonga tribesmen to beat and chase bembas who are the largest tribe in Zambia and ngonis the second largest tribe for supporting the ruling party. unlike u Gambians with no indipendent judiciary,in Zambia we have a very independent judiciary which has So many times ruled against the president.so Pliz don’t compare Zambia to yo mess.
Well done AU and ECOWAS. The comment made by Being above is very important. Lungu has been allowed by SADC and AU to play for time with the Presidential Petition. Jammeh is being encouraged by Lungu to play these Court games while clinging on to power illegally. Jammeh would like to treated in the same as Lungu in Zambia. Lungu is wrong model not only to Southern Africa but the whole of Africa. The AU should take a similar stand on the Election Dispute and Petition in Zambia. SADC should wake up and deal with the Zambian Election decisively. Had the Petition been heard and disposed off Yahya Jammeh would not have emulating Lungu. Its good to see that to complement ECOWAS peace efforts in Gambia the AU has taken a tough stance on Jammeh. The AU should take tough stand on Lungu of Zambia so that the Will of the People is respected.
Killer Kanyi It’s enlightening that you equate your group and therefore the leadership of Yahya Jammeh to the TERRORIST like BOKO HARAM and the GENOCIDE OF RWANDA don’t you ever dare envoke that dastardly event FOR AFRICANS SAY NEVER AGAIN the perpetrators are either on the run, in jail or DEAD.
THE RWANDANS REBUILT AND THE COUNTRY IS NOW IN FAR BETTER SHAPE THAN THE GAMBIA BY ALL MEANS OFALL DEVELOPMENT.
The Gambian people have had enough of our families being terrorised by you and your lot you mistake loving peace as cowardice.
We now say bring it on ENOUGHS ENOUGH
Wat will happen is that wen dog Jameh refuses to step down on Wednesday the AU and ECOWAS Will impose sanctions on his government meaning Gambia’s account in the ECOWAS Central Bank will be frozen and the idiot will not be able to pay those dogs he calls soldiers. with no pay they will dump him leaving him no security and next hz corpse will be dragged in the streets of Banjul. while Jameh’s family is in the US, General Badgie’s family is in Gambia and will face mobs while General Badgie will be at the Hague being tried for Human Rights abuse. General Badgie u are a FOOL.
JAMMEH MUSA THE CHAMPION OF PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT, WE ARE BEHIND YOU FROM NOW AND ON.
WARNING to all the traitors and sellouts be ready to face extermination because you all cockroaches. You will all be wiped out like how the Rwandan’s exterminated their cockroaches. You dont deserve to be treated as humans as long as you are sellouts and traitors.
Let everyone be aware that as long as you identify yourselves to Barrow’s gang of sellouts and traitors threantening the peaceful co-existence in the Gambia just to ascend to the presidency in a fraudulent manner you will not be treated with courtesy and respect.
Let all Patriotic Gambians rally behind the Champion of Progress and Development Yahya A J J Jammeh Babili Mansa The Panafricanist and defend our Gambia to the last drop of our blood. Let us all be ready to get to work and exterminate all the cockroaches like how it was done in Rwanda and Burundi.
No traitor or sellout will be spared we will kill them all because they are cockroaches.
LONGLIVE THE CHAMPION OF PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT YAHYA A J J JAMMEH.
LONGLIVE THE JULY 22ND REVOLUTION
I ‘ve imagined earlier on why other men, if really they are men, should be so dominated by another man…This is a suspicious psychologic behaviour among men of a clique. The worship of the person of a man by other men is really disturbing much more when it sounds like hey are over-dosed by drinking his-hands and feet-dipped water. Kill and try to see if you can mend back the life you have taken. All you killers out there are spellbound psychpaths, an unfortunate situation of the country.
Killer Kanyi, you should look at yourself or maybe you cannot see clearly any more.
Kangwa of Zambia is lying thru hi,s teeth. The Petition was not heard by Concourt and neither was it determined by the same Court. The Supreme Court has not considered the Petition as yet. The ICC has not been brought into the Petition yet. The point is ,the Petition has not been heard and no Court in Zambia has declared a Winner of the 2016 Elections becoz Lungu has been blocking the Petition in both Concourt and the High Court. Lungu packed the Concourt Bench with friendly and corrupt Judges with whom he is using to block and frustrate the Petition. Jammeh has seen how Lungu has been manipulating the Zambian Courts and buying time and clinging to power illegally. Yammeh has filed a frivolous Petetion and Injuction to the Supreme Court. Just like Lungu, Yammeh is buying time and wanting to cling to power illegally. If Lungu won the Election genuinely and fairly why has he refused to give evidence in Court showing how he won. Lungu is now considered an Election Thief ,Fraudster and Rigger in Zambia.Why doesnt Lungu clear his name in Court to avoid being stigmised this way?On Gambia ,Ecowas and AU stance is commendable. However, AU to avoid Double Standards must take a firm stand on the Petition Hearing in Zambia and insist that the Petition be heard within 30 days failing which Lungu must be de-recognised by the AU and treated as an illegitimate President of Zambia. AU should urge SADC to play a more proactive role in Zambia and DRC.Lungu is a bad example to Africa just like Jammeh and Kabila of DRC.