President Muhammadu Buhari will on Saturday host leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to a meeting in Abuja in continuation of talks on the current electoral impasse in The Gambia The Joint ECOWASAU- UN team, made up of President Buhari.
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia (current Chairperson of ECOWAS), President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, outgoing President John Mahama of Ghana, and Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas, (UN Special Representative for West Africa) met with Yahaya Jammeh on Tuesday.
A source privy to the planned Abuja talks exclusively told DailyGlobeWatch in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city that many options would be considered in the meeting including the use of military force to oust
President Jammeh from office. Buhari’s experience as a former military officer who rose to the post of a General in the Nigerian Army would help in this regard , one of the reasons why the meeting would be convened in Abuja, our source further revealed The team encouraged Jammeh to reconsider his rejection of the election results citing “tallying errors” and his call for new elections. Jammeh was also urged to hand over power “within constitutional deadlines, and in accordance with electoral laws of The Gambia.”
“The coalition of seven political parties that produced Adama Barrow, President-elect of The Gambia, looks earnestly up to President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria to deploy his vast experience, alongside other African leaders, to resolve the political logjam in the tiny West African country.
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