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Gambian President Jammeh Says He Will Not Step Down

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Yahya Jammeh

(JollofNews) – Gambian President Yahya Jammeh said he would not step down and condemned mediation by West African regional bloc ECOWAS that aims to get him to leave power after he lost a Dec. 1 election to challenger Adama Barrow.

The comments on state television late on Tuesday were a hardening of the veteran president’s position after days in which hopes mounted he could be persuaded to hand over power at the end of his mandate on Jan. 18, when Barrow is due to be inaugurated.

“I am not a coward. My right cannot be intimidated and violated. This is my position. Nobody can deprive me of that victory except the Almighty Allah,” Jammeh said.

“Already the ECOWAS meeting was a formality. Before they came, they had already said Jammeh must step down. I will not step down,” he said.

Jammeh initially accepted the results of an election whose outcome was seen across Africa as a moment of hope. He is accused by human rights groups of the detention, torture and killing of perceived opponents during his 22-year rule.

On Dec. 9, he reversed his position and said he would challenge in the country’s Supreme Court the results of an election he said was riddled with irregularities.

(Writing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg; Editing by; Editing by Peter Cooney)

5 Comments

  1. Not big Man but ideot and sick
    ,, hahahahahaha ,,, I will not step down,” he said.,,,,, hahahahaha
    He is living in phools paridies,, big bally little head,,, am not gambian but i felt gambian r so huble that they dnt said aganst him ,just afraid ,,, he must stepdown , the gambian nation have decide on 1 dec2016,, why he so ideot that dnt understand it ,,,,, his place is not in presidential house but mantal hospital… ….

  2. Not big Man but ideot and sick
    ,, hahahahahaha ,,, I will not step down,” he said.,,,,, hahahahaha
    He is living in phools paridies,, big bally little head,,, am not gambian but i felt gambian r so huble that they dnt said against him ,just afraid ,,, he must stepdown , the gambian nation have decide on 1 dec2016,, why he so ideot that dnt understand it ,,,,, his place is not in presidential house but mantal hospital… ….

  3. With the unanimous decision of the Gambian citizenry on December 1st, God Almighty have already spoken even to the “deaf & dumb”; with the whole world in witness & in testament of the International & Regional Communities’ responses & stance in solidarity with the oppressed Gambia…
    DEVIL yaya NEVER believed in BUT ONLY used God pretentiously to fake which has eventually been caught up with no matter how long it takes…
    Yaya now knows as from it(yaya)self own mouth will go to hellfire “if a Mandinka ever becomes president in Gambia ever again”…
    To DEVIL yaya & the syndola rebel militia Adama Barrow is like a “Mandinka being helped by others” to lay reclaim to the ILLEGAL ILLEGITIMATE crown…
    Yaya & ALL the militia collaborative rebels can bank on a direct-ticket to hellfire insistently OR face a Truth & Reconciliation; EITHER choice is for their own choices &/ making by time of the Constitutionally stipulated inauguration of President Barrow…
    Long live the Gambia…

  4. Jammeh is just indulging in empty braggadocio. History has shown that most despots are cowards. Come January 18, the little man called Jammeh is likely to disappear into exile. However, wherever he runs to he will never have peace. The spirits of those he had murdered like Deyda Hydra will continue to torture and haunt him. My prediction: He is likely to spend the rest of his miserable life in a lonely dingy jail.

  5. Jammeh will hide in a hole when everything gets tough, you remember Saddam Hussein hid in a hole, so this will be a replay of that experience. The dog that would perish does not listen to the hunter, let him continue to brag there, January 19, 2016 is here, let him not handover, we would see if he is bigger than the whole Gambians

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