Embattled
Gambian out-gone President, Yahaya Jammeh is reportedly, currently writing an
acceptance speech wherein he would agree to cede power and officially recognize
Adama Barrow as his successor.
A France24
journalist in The Gambia, Nicolas Germain, confirmed this in a tweet. According
to him, Jammeh is “currently writing the a statement where he accepts to leave,
in the presence of Guinean officials.”
Recall that
earlier today, Jammeh had asked a shift in deadline of midday to vacate office
as ECOWAS soldiers closed in on him.
Government
sources had said that the request was made when the leaders of Guinea and
Mauritania arrived in the capital, Banjul, in a last-ditch diplomatic effort to
get him to cede power.
The twitter
handle of Charles Onyango-Obbot @cobbo3, a Ugandan journalist and author had
equally reported that “ Jammeh asks for deadline extension – from midday (local
time) to 4pm!” “He’s not done packing #Gambia.”
Meanwhile,
after the inauguration of Adama Barrow, which held on Thursday, January 19,
2017, at the Gambian Embassy in Senegal, the presidential portrait of Yahya
Jammeh was replaced with that of the internationally recognised President,
Adama Barrow. The event happened at the UN Gambia’s mission in the United
State.
U.N replaces
Jammeh’s portrait with Barrow
Recall also
that a regional military force that crossed the border in support of his
democratically elected successor, Adama Barrow, was awaiting orders on Friday.
The West
African troops entered the Gambia on Thursday night, hours after Barrow was
forced to hold his inauguration as president in Dakar, the capital of Senegal.
De Souza
said the west African force, which includes tanks, has so far met no
resistance.
Banjul, the
capital, was deserted on Friday.
Dozens of
vultures spread their wings on the large ground outside State House, and a lone
cyclist, perhaps one of the few remaining tourists in the country, made the
most of the empty roads.
The
country’s chief of defence staff, Ousman Badjie, was seen speeding in the
direction of Banjul. He has switched allegiance several times over the past
month, and was celebrating with Barrow supporters in the streets last night.
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