Gambian president-elect Jammeh to be sworn in

  1. Posted on Friday 13 January 2012 - 11:01
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    Buya Jammeh, AfricaNews reporter in Dakar, Senegal
    President elect Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia winner November 2011 disputed presidential polls is due to be sworn in for a fourth term on the 19 January 2012 in the Capital Banjul. Jammeh made this announcement in his twitter account this afternoon 'I will be sworn in for the fourth time on January 19th 2012. Thank you Gambia. Alsaamadeh' President Jammeh stated in his tweet.
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    The Gambian leader, who has rule the country with iron fist for the past 17 years, was pronounced winner of last year’s in a landslide with 72 per cent of the votes, amid wide spread criticism from the Economic Community of West African states (ECOWAS) sub-region saying its fact-finding mission had found "an unacceptable level of control of the electronic media by the party in power ... and an opposition and electorate cowed by repression and intimidation".

    According to results announced by the Independent Electoral Commission, the main opposition leader, Ousainou Darboe, had just 14.5 per cent of the vote while independent candidate Amath Bah had polled 8.3 per cent.

    The opposition leaders namely Ousainou Darboe of the United Democratic Party (UDP) and Amath NK Bah of the opposition united front rejected the results and also called for a review of the electoral laws.

    After his victory; Parliamentarians from the ruling Alliance for patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC re-acted to the president of the ECOWAS commission for not sending an observer mission to observer the election; they further petition him to the ECOWAS Parliament calling on him to resign from his post.
    However;

    The ECOWAS Parliament referred the motion between The Gambia and the ECOWAS Commission president on the country’s presidential polls to the next Ordinary Session in May this year.

    Jammeh, one of Africa's most controversial rulers, first took power at the age of 29 after a 1994 army coup.

    The military turned civil president declared in July that neither a vote nor a coup could oust him, saying he ruled thanks to divine intervention. Jammeh also told the BBC that he will rule one billion years, as long as God wishes.

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