By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Sundiata Post) – Gambian Army at Command Centre Kanilai has communicated that they are joining ECOWAS forces as Adama Barrow has officially been sworn in as the President of Gambia.
The President of Gambian Bar Association, Sheriff Tambadou administered the ceremony at the Gambian Embassy in Dakar. Gambia now has two men claiming to be president.
This is coming as ECOWAS troop from Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Mali and Togo massed at the borders of Senegal, waiting for a green light to intervene and unseat Yahya Jammeh.
Early this morning, the Gambian Vice President Isatou Njie Saidy resigned her position amid rising tensions as Yahya Jammeh refuses to step down despite losing election to Mr Adama Barrow.
Saidy is the highest level official to abandon Jammeh’s camp not minding the tenure elongation granted Jammeh by the Gambian parliament.
Also, the Kristin Palitza, African Correspondent for German Press Agency based in Cape Town said in a tweet that “Gambia army chief of staff and police chief say they are no longer loyal to him (President Yahya Jammeh)”. The army chief has insisted his soldiers would not get involved in a “political dispute” nor prevent foreign forces from entering the West African nation.
Sundiata Post recalls that not less than 26,000 people have fled the capital and crossed the border into Senegal in the past 19 days turning Banjul into a ‘ghost town’.
