{"id":31006,"date":"2016-12-12T03:37:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T03:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gambia-leader-yahya-jammeh-to-contest-election\/"},"modified":"2016-12-12T03:37:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T03:37:08","slug":"gambia-leader-yahya-jammeh-to-contest-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gambia-leader-yahya-jammeh-to-contest-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia leader Yahya Jammeh to contest election defeat in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh says he will launch a legal challenge to contest an election defeat that will bring an end to his 22-year rule.}<\/p>\n<p>President Jammeh initially conceded after rival Adama Barrow won last week&#8217;s vote, but then backtracked on Friday, saying he &#8220;totally&#8221; rejected the result.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Security Council has demanded he accepts defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The streets remain calm despite a heavy army presence in the capital Banjul.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jammeh&#8217;s Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction party announced, late on Saturday, that a petition will be filed to The Gambia&#8217;s Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>By law, election results can be contested up to 10 days after the vote.<\/p>\n<p>President-elect Barrow said on Sunday that he feared for his safety. He had previously accused his rival of damaging democracy by refusing to agree to hand over power.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jammeh, who took power in a coup in 1994, has cited &#8220;abnormalities&#8221; in the vote and wants a re-run.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16986 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_92926124_gambia.jpg\" alt=\"Incumbent Gambian President Yahya Jammeh gesturing at a Banjul polling station on election day\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh says he will launch a legal challenge to contest an election defeat that will bring an end to his 22-year rule.} President Jammeh initially conceded after rival Adama Barrow won last week&#8217;s vote, but then backtracked on Friday, saying he &#8220;totally&#8221; rejected the result. The United Nations Security Council has demanded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31006"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31006"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}