The Gambia’s former President Yahya Jammeh has turned down an offer to join forces with incumbent President Adama Barrow in the upcoming presidential election. The exiled politician told his supporters the move to form an alliance was without his consent.
In a telephone address to thousands of his supporters gathered in his home village of Kanilai, Jammeh, who has been living in exile in Equatorial Guinea since his election defeat in 2016, declared himself as legitimate leader of his party and fired the leadership for forming an alliance with his successor.
In exile for the past four years, Jammeh remains influential in the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) party. Recently hundreds of supporters converged at his hometown, Kanilai to listen to a phone call Jammeh made from his base in Equatorial Guinea.
During the telephone address, Jammeh told his supporters that he sacked the entire APRC executive for forming an alliance with President Barrow without his consent and says he has taken over the party.
Credit: rfi.fr
