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Jammeh departs Gambia today, to go int exile

Ousted Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is prepping up to go on exile after he accepted to step down following last ditch diplomatic efforts made by the leaders of Guinea and Mauritania who were both in the capital, Banjul, to get him to cede power.

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

Read also: GAMBIA: Military push on hold as final talks with Jammeh hold Friday

According to a senior adviser to new President Adama Barrow, Jammeh who has ceded power noted that he’ll be going into exile today as talks to finalise the 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.

Had he declined to step down, ECOWAS troops which entered Gambia, hours after Barrow was forced to hold his inauguration as president in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, were awaiting orders to force Jammeh out if he refused to relinquish power.

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  1. Margret Dickson

    January 21, 2017 at 3:30 pm

    Jammeh as done what is best for his family and himself, if he had waited for ECOWAS troops to force him out, may be he’d have been dead by now. I’m sure the people of Gambia will never forget the reign of Jammeh.

  2. Johnson Amadi

    January 21, 2017 at 3:34 pm

    Jammeh is just a coward who couldn’t fight for what he believes to be right. As a military man, he was meant to fight until he’s finally over powered, how can mere conversation and display of ECOWAS troops bring a whole Jammeh to step down? I’m highly disappointing about his action.

    • Animashaun Ayodeji

      January 21, 2017 at 3:44 pm

      I think you are the coward here Mister man, you have failed to stand up for what is right and what the whole world believe to be right. Jammeh was strong and stubborn, but what shall it profit him if ECOWAS troops wasted his life? Don’t forget Jammeh took over power by coup in 1994 (probably before you were born), he ought to have stepped down before yesterday (2017) and the whole world would still be celebrating him by now.

  3. JOHNSON PETER

    January 21, 2017 at 4:17 pm

    Jammeh thought Ecowas was joking with him before now, but when he saw their seriousness , he had to bury his head in shame to accept defeat. He would have died like Gadafi . No he can not stay in his own home soil again. Shame shame on him.

    • Joy Madu

      January 21, 2017 at 4:48 pm

      Buhari deserve kudos for ousting Jammeh out of power.
      He and senegal president made it possible.

  4. Balarabe musa

    January 21, 2017 at 4:25 pm

    22 years ruling was not okay for power drunk Jammeh, he ought to have been left to die with just a bullet of gun. ICC must make sure he is duly prosecuted and sentenced to imprisonment.

    • seyi jelili

      January 21, 2017 at 4:42 pm

      Noooo. It was part of the agreement they had before he admitted ceding power that ICC won’t prosecute him.
      So he is free, the only thing is that he won’t have the opportunity to come to Gambia again as he will be on exile.

      • chichi emerue

        January 21, 2017 at 4:51 pm

        ICC is different madam. They will surely prosecute him. They just had to agree on that so Jammeh can quickly cede power, he has no choice than to languish in prison soon.

  5. Roland Uchendu Pele

    January 21, 2017 at 6:07 pm

    No decision could be better than going on exile. His presence in the country could result to certain derogatory acts inspired by the fact that he’d be hated even by his own kinsmen. A lot for him to stand at the moment!

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