(JollofNews) – President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia has asked the country’s supreme court to declare him winner of the December 1st presidential elections.
Mr Jammeh said he had pulled more votes in the election than his opposition rival and should therefore be declared the duly elected president of the Gambia instead of Adama Barrow.
Mr Barrow was declared winner of the election by the country’s electoral commission after he secured 227, 708 votes representing 43 per cent of the general votes while Mr Jammeh secured 208, 487 votes representing 40 per cent of the votes.
Mr Jammeh, 51, who has ruled the Gambia since July 1994 had initially conceded defeat and praised the country’s electoral system as “the most transparent election in the whole world,” adding that he would not contest the result.
Speaking at the time, he said: “I take this opportunity to congratulate Mr Adama for his victory. It’s a clear victory. I wish him all the best and I wish all Gambians the best. As a true Muslim who believes in the Almighty Allah I will never question Allah’s decision. You Gambians have decided.”
But a week later, he annulled the results and called for fresh elections to be held. He later file a lawsuit in the supreme court, which is currently vacant to challenge the results.
According to judicial records, Mr Jammeh who is being represented by the Attorney General of and minister of Justice, Mama Fatima Singhateh and Edward Mendy, a former attorney general and minister of Justice, said the December 1st election was not conducted fairly and in good faith and is therefore invalid.
He added that the electoral commission had failed to follow the rules stipulated in the election law on election day in some parts of the country including Lower Fulladu West constituency, which seriously affected the credibility of the results of the election and thereby rendering the results invalid.
Mr Jammeh also accused the electoral commission of failing to properly collate the results of the election. He said the commission has admitted mistakes and has declared two different results on December 2nd and 5th.
He added that his part was not represented and did not signed the revised election results that were announced by the commission.
Mr Jammeh also accused IEC presiding officers in the Upper River Region (URR) of intimidating 25,000 of his supporters who had queue at polling station to vote for him. He said his the election officials refused his supporters the right to vote.
The case will be heard on January 1oth 2017.
How did you win the election Mr jAMMEH???????
You are an idiot of the highest order jammeh or germs.evil spirit. Greedy chimpanzee.you wear white but your heart is shameless,Dark and stupid. Those whom God would destroy he first makes them mad. Your destruction is imminent. Shame on you.
So EVIL kanilai DEVIL is claiming to have “won” & to be declared the “winner” of the election; well, maybe in its (yaya) own myopic head in the habitual wishful daydream which will surely come to end by January 19 or there about; Insha Allah…
Send down your pathetic mercenary elements in the kanilai FIEFDOM kangaroo judiciary robes cum-judges; let them declare you & see IF they can undo & reverse the collective Gambians’ hands which have already been blessed & sealed by the Almighty God HIMSELF…
Under the third republic Gambia will ask for the Regional, International communities & the whole world to help cooperate & facilitate the prosecutions & recovery of our monies & meagre resources being dish-out to these international mercenaries ever engaged in the enactments, enablement & facilitation of humanity & economic crimes against innocent people for the past 22 years under the DEVILISH kanilai KILLER FIEFDOM misrule…
The INEVITABLE “Day of Reckoning” have now dawned for the MURDEROUS kanilai OPPRESSIVE KILLER DEVIL & enabling cohorts; NOTHING else can now stop time; to undo God Almighty’s Making which MUST either be complied with OR face the Supreme Creator’s wrath…
Long live the Gambia…
yahya you are a loser thats all go foolish man yr time is over .you must die gadafi way
Jammeh u are done,ur Era as a president is over u better believe that.
Thanks, I do belive the Gambia constitution it’s all we need do have this quistion resolved and have a second round of elections
there no need to contest the result has both candidates none of then got 50% plus one vote to won the elections
the Gambia constituting part 3 number 3 it’s clear that if no candidate has more than 50% of votes casted there should be a new election even if it it was the only candidate has none of them have more than 50% it’s clear that it’s should be a new elections
I do like all of you people to go and read the Gambia constitution notwithstanding that there may be only one candidate
nominated for election.
(2) Where a nominated candidate dies between nomination day
and polling day, the Independent Electoral Commission
shall appoint a new nomination day and, if necessary, a
new day or days for the election.
(3) No person shall be elected as President on a first ballot
unless the votes cast in his or her favour at the election are
more than fifty per cent of the total number of votes validly
cast at that election.
(4) If, on a first ballot, there was only one candidate and he or
she fails to obtain the percentage of the votes validly cast as
specified in subsection (3), new nomination and election
days shall be appointed, if, at the close of nominations for a
second ballot,
(a) there is only one candidate nominated, he or she
shall be declared to have been duly elected
President,
(b) there are more than one candidate nominated, a
second ballot shall be held.
(5) If, on the first ballot, there were two or more candidates, a
second ballot shall be held within fourteen days between
the two candidates who received the highest number of
votes validly cast at the first ballot. In the event that more
than two candidates received equally the highest number or
second highest number of votes, all of them shall
participate in the second ballot.
(6) On a second ballot, the candidate, who receives the highest
number of votes shall be declared to have been duly elected
President.
Challenge to 49. Any registered political party which has participated in the
election of a President Presidential election or an independent candidate who has
participated in such an election may apply to the Supreme Court to
determine the validity of the election of a President by filling a
petition within ten days of the declaration of the result of the
election.
Luis felix