Gambia's Yahya Jammeh will be treated like a rebel leader if he doesn't concede, warns opposition

Source: IBTimes

The Gambian opposition coalition has warned outgoing president Yahya Jammeh that he will be treated like a rebel leader if he refuses to step down. Jammeh lost to Adama Barrow, head of the coalition and member of the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP), on 1 December.

The outgoing leader, who took power in a bloodless coup in 1994, originally conceded defeat. However, he now intends to contest the vote at the Supreme Court due to what he says are "unacceptable abnormalities".

"Any president who loses constitutional legitimacy becomes a rebel," Halifa Sallah, a spokesman for the opposition coalition, was quoted by AFP as saying.

"Anybody who is a military officer or civil servant who refuses to be under another constitutional authority obviously would also become a rebel," he added.


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