{"id":31390,"date":"2016-12-27T01:01:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T01:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gambian-president-elect-tells-jammeh-to-transfer\/"},"modified":"2016-12-27T01:01:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T01:01:43","slug":"gambian-president-elect-tells-jammeh-to-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gambian-president-elect-tells-jammeh-to-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambian president-elect tells Jammeh to transfer power like British"},"content":{"rendered":"

{The Gambia’s president-elect Adama Barrow on Monday called on President Yahya Jammeh to step aside, saying that even colonial power Britain was able to hand over power peacefully. }<\/p>\n

In a Christmas message, Barrow said Gambians should be free of the threat of violence as “we enter a New Year of hope” after Jammeh threatened to cling to power unless the Supreme Court orders him to step down.<\/p>\n

Barrow also announced the creation of a group of experts to lay the foundations for his new administration. <\/p>\n

Jammeh, who has been in power for 22 years, stunned observers by initially accepting his defeat in the December 1 vote by opposition candidate Barrow, but then flip-flopped a week later, rejecting the results and filing a court challenge.<\/p>\n

“I should assume office when the term of office of the incumbent expires… I do not want to preside over a country that is not at peace with itself,” Barrow said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“I am calling on all peace loving Gambians to… work for a peaceful transfer of executive power, for the first time in our history since independence.”<\/p>\n

Jammeh has stoked international concerns about the future of the tiny west African country, with the UN joining African leaders in calling for him to step down.<\/p>\n

“If the colonialists could peacefully hand over executive power… (we) should be able to show a better example to our children,” Barrow said.<\/p>\n

“To ensure that the country realises its full potential when I assume office, I have already commissioned the establishment of a think tank” to prepare a transition plan.<\/p>\n

Under Jammeh’s long rule, The Gambia has remained crushingly poor but enjoyed relative stability \u2014 though rights groups and media watchdogs accuse him of cultivating a climate of fear and clamping down on dissent.<\/p>\n

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