Gambia’s Chief Justice Emmanuel Fagbale has said he cannot stop the country’s President-elect Adama Barrow from assuming office as scheduled on 19 January 2017.
Presiding over the election petition by outgoing President Yahya Jammeh and his Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) party, the Chief Justice stated that the Supreme Court did not constitute the panel of judges needed to hear the petition.
Jammeh had filed an injunction at the Court to stop the inauguration of President-elect Barrow.
The Gambian Constitution requires a panel of five judges for the Supreme Court to hear the case.
Justice Fagbale adjourned the case to May or November 2017, saying its hearing would continue when judges are available.
