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Gambia’s former president, Yahya Jammeh will now leave Banjul on Saturday with President Alpha Conde of Guinea, to begin a new life in exile.

This followed Friday’s final peace move by Conde and Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.

The two West African leaders traveled to Banjul to persuade the long-ruling Jammeh to leave peacefully before West African forces pounced on him.

In a statement issued on state TV Friday night, Jammeh announced that he was stepping down, a superfluous announcement as he was already no more the leader, having been denied recognition by the world.

All indications are that Jammeh will be going into exile in Guinea.

A senior adviser to new President Adama Barrow said talks to finalize the exile deal were holding up his exit.

“I can assure you that he has agreed to leave,” Mai Ahmad Fatty, Barrow’s special advisor, told Reuters in Senegal’s capital Dakar. He could not say where Jammeh would go into exile.

President of The Gambia, Adama Barrow had earlier confirmed Yahya Jammeh’s stepping down.

Barrow, on his Twitter handle on Friday, @adama_barrow said: “I would like to inform you that Yahya Jammeh has agreed to step down.

“He is scheduled to depart Gambia today. #NewGambia.”

Barrow on Thursday took the oath of office as Gambia’s new president.

He was sworn-in about 5 p.m. Senegalese time at the Gambian High Commission in Dakar, Senegal.

Barrow succeeded Yahya Jammeh, who lost in the Dec. 1 presidential election and refused to vacate office when his term expired midnight on Thursday.

Gambia’s Chief of Defence, Ousman Badjie, on Friday pledged loyalty to President Barrow.

“West African troops that crossed from neighboring Senegal into Gambia to help unseat Jammeh would be welcomed “with a cup of tea,’’ said Badjie.

ECOWAS armies halted Operation Restore Democracy aimed at installing the country’s new president, Adama Barrow, on Thursday so regional leaders could make one last attempt to convince long-time ruler Yahya Jammeh to step aside.

In Dakar, the Nigerian force Commander, Operation Restore Democracy, Air Commodore Tajudeen Yusuf, said the ECOWAS forces would not let down their guard, in spite of negotiations for the former Gambian president, Alhaji Yahaya Jammeh to leave office.

He said the troops are awaiting briefing by the political leaders.

Yusuf made the statement while briefing journalists in Dakar, on Friday.

“Even if he quits we are not letting down our guard, our mandate is to restore peace in Gambia.

“We have been on standby, and the troops are still on a very high alert, depending on the outcome of political negotiations.

“We are not letting down our guard; our mandate is to restore democracy in Gambia,’’ Yusuf said.

Yusuf added that the mandate given to them was to restore peace and nothing else.

He promised to carry out his responsibilities professionally while waiting for a further directive from the political masters.

Jammeh, in power since a 1994 coup, initially conceded defeat to Barrow following a Dec. 1 election before back-tracking, saying the vote was flawed.


http://saharareporters.com/2017/01/21/finally-disgraced-out-o-power-gambian-dictator-yayha-jammeh-leaves-banjul-today-exile

Good for him.

Good one

Premium Times gave a news then that Nigeria is preparing an attack on Jammeh forces and NA denied it like lai Mohammed.


Today Tajudeen Yusuf is running his mouth like electric cable.

Jammeh should be extradited to face his crimes he committed on the Gambian people. It's time leaders pay for their crimes

The man thought nations would be begging him to come down.... no that was 20th century....


but now ur life could be Gadafied if u refuse....

lovat:
Premium Times gave a news then that Nigeria is preparing an attack on Jammeh forces and NA denied it like lai Mohammed.


Today Tajudeen Yusuf is running his mouth like electric cable.

Jammeh should be extradited to face his crimes he committed on the Gambian people. It's time leaders pay for their crimes

Which crime.?

ScotsReferendum:
Which crime.?

An African leader rules for 22 years and you are asking which crime?

Kpachara anyi gi biko

He was boxing way above his weight.., throwing tantrums with all those off and on pan Africanist rants that he couldn't back up with any solid policy delivery, say as Sankara did. In the end, both the west and fellow African leaders that used to overlook him decided to deal with him once and for all. A combination of the fact that his opponent is fulani, Buharis clan and the fact that the elections happened same time as Ghana's election with the Ghanaian president conceding defeat didn't help his sit tight plans.. He sealed his fate when he announced Gambias withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. He should have left like Blais Compaore, disappearing into his village to enjoy his loot rather than making himself a butt of prime time jokes.. His fashion trend will only make more people in the middle heave a sigh of releif. Who will miss a clownish looking character with a Koran, bundle of beeds, and an akward Aguiyi-Ironsi kind of staff?

Buhari just set himself up.. ........

you will understand this post in 2019

lovat:
An African leader rules for 22 years and you are asking which crime?

Kpachara anyi gi biko

Buhari also should be punished for overthrowing a democratic government

Don't you think so

Stupidity is not knowing when to bow out! Over 2 decades of playing deity over his people was not enough for him.

eiyaa bai bai

ScotsReferendum:
Buhari also should be punished for overthrowing a democratic government

Don't you think so

Nwanne m hapu ifea. Let Jmmeh go then we ll face the idiot in 2019

From Palace to exike

Some of these African leaders and their myopic and dumb reasoning. Ain't dis penny wise pounds foolish? What's d point in refusing to hand over wen U know quite well u'll eventually b forced out and have to flee and live at the mercy of others? If it was a case of cancelling the elections before dey even held it would have been different but elections had com and gone and he even shot himself in the foot by accepting defeat and proclaiming d elections were free and fair. If he had handed over peacefully like first planned he would have earned the respect of both his ppl and d rest of the world. Na craze dey worry d man infact.