(JollofNews) – Members of the Nigeria’s House of Representatives will today consider a motion whether to grant asylum to President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia.
The motion which was introduced under matters of urgent public importance by Sani Zoro, member for Jigawa State and former national president of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, will give President Jammeh a chance to go to the west African state and rest.
It will also allow Mr Jammeh to live safely while he is out of office without the risk of prosecution.
Mr Jammeh, 51, who has ruled the Gambia for 22 years last month suffered a surprised election defeat.
The election was called in favour of opposition candidate Adama Barrow who won more than 45% of the vote according to the country’s electoral commission.
Mr Jammeh had initially conceded defeat and praised the country’s electoral system as rigged proof. He changed his mind a week later and declared the results null and void citing huge and unacceptable mistakes by the electoral commission.
He later filed a suit at the supreme court asking judges to determine that Adama Barrow was not duly elected or returned as president, and that the said election was void.
But the court is unable to hold a hearing until May – as most of the judges come from neighbouring countries – and Mr Jammeh has said he is going nowhere until then.
Nigeria’s President Muhammudu Buhari, is the chief regional mediator and is due in the Gambia tomorrow.
The Nigerian MPs are joking. President Jammeh won’t move an inch from Gambian territory.
Jollofnews keeps on repeating the same statements. Why can’t you emphasize that the Coalition misled with the results, denied voters their rights to cast votes in some constituentcies and again want to deny the APRC the right for a redress in the courts.
Why do they have to fear the courts? The results are fraud and we’ll fight to the dead end to receive a fairer interpretation of the entire election exercise.
Traitors behave just like how Sheriff Bojang and Alieu K Jammeh and others do.
Yahya expect that many of their tribesmen will abandon you, but remain steadfast and reaffirm your position “backward never forward ever. God is ever powerful and Inshallah they will all regret their acts. As the wollof saying goes “Sosseh du sosal ken” they are devillish and only want to see your downfall but they will never live to see that. Note that with their treacherous plans in their defections none will ever survive to see your downfall. It is now clear to you that with all what they were saying in niceties and praise singing they were undermining you just to see your downfall but God the all knowing and everpowerful is and will continue to.protect you from their evil machination. INSHALLAH.
LONGLIVE YAHYA A.J.J. JAMMEH
Hello Fellow Gambian,
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.
this fake news should not appear here!
Thats News Bullshit.
Honestly all jammeh needs is amnesty and leaves. He really pretends to love the country but honestly only for himself. The gambia is empty now. Thats what he threatened during the campaign. I know he fears prosecution, but its time we forgive him eras him un our memories. There is no punishmnent and humiliation more the unbelievable election defeat that he never expected.
Yes i totally agree, especially after he has been ranting all these years that neither a coup nor an election can remove him from power.