(JollofNews) – It is indeed quite hard for any reasonable person to understand why Yahya Jammeh, who had been posing as a nationalist and a pan-Africanist who is prepared to die in defense of the people would now want to plunge our dear country into chaos and violence just to[Read More…]
Tag: Jammeh concedes defeat
Gambia: Jammeh Asks Court To Declare Him Winner Of December Polls
(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[Read More…]
Why I Am Not Stepping Down As President Of Gambia
(JollofNews) – What happened in the Gambia is very interesting. Never before in the past 22 years did we have such interference from outside in our electoral process which obviously is unacceptable. We have had four presidential elections in this country during my time and at no election did we[Read More…]
Letter From New York: My Loyalty To President Jammeh Is Unwavering
(JollofNews) – I wonder what kind of democracy some of the opposition Gambian activists, especially those in the diaspora are advocating for, who are acting increasingly intolerable to my divergent political opinions or affiliation? Even some unexpected close members of my family are denouncing me for standing by my belief[Read More…]
Gambia: President Jammeh’s Soothsayer Ends …
(JollofNews)- Inside State House On Election Night And Beyond FIRST MESSENGER: Janjangburreh speakest with sanity, as doth their vote. And Banjul Central doth stay its way to our sway. Great Soothsayer arrives soon! SECOND MESSENGER: I wouldst Brikama swell with green and tilt to our vantage, while Serrekunda stirred by the[Read More…]
Gambia: I Stand By President Jammeh For Rejecting Election Results
(JollofNews) – I am sure a lot of my readers have been keenly waiting for my opinion over the political developments in the Gambia where the whole world is trying to figure out what went wrong after His Excellency Sheikh Professor Doctor Alhagie Yahya A. J. J. Jammeh, Babillimansa, my[Read More…]
Gambia: Hackers Takes The Fight To President Jammeh
(JollofNews) – Unknown hackers have taken down President Yahya Jammeh’s State House website shortly after the Gambian leader made another surprised televised statement that he has rejected the results of December 1st elections. No one has claimed responsibility but the hackers have uploaded a picture of Adama Barrow, who was[Read More…]
Adama Barrow Accused Jammeh Of Damaging Gambia’s Democracy
(JollofNews) – President Yahya Jammeh’s sudden decision to reject the election results is damaging the Gambia’s democratic credentials, President-elect Adama Barrow said. Mr Barrow and the his coalition partners are safe and are not facing any security threats at the moment. A closed aid has told JollofNews that Mr Barrow was[Read More…]
Senegal Calls For UN Security Council Meeting Over Gambia
(JollofNews) – Senegal on Saturday called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council after Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh announced he was rejecting the results of a Dec. 1 election which he lost to President-elect Adama Barrow. Senegal’s Foreign Minister, Mankeur Ndiaye, speaking on television station TFM, also asked[Read More…]
Updated: Gambia’s Jammeh Rejects Election Results
(JollofNews) – President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia Friday rejected the results of last weeks election accusing the country’s electoral commission of committing ‘unacceptable mistakes’. Mr Jammeh, 51, who has ruled the Gambia since July 1994, lost the election to Adama Barrow of the opposition coalition. Final results by the[Read More…]