Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, and other West African leaders continued their discussions on Monday on the political impasse in The Gambia.
President Buhari disclosed this to journalists at the end of a closed-door meeting of the leaders in Accra, Ghana, on Saturday shortly after the inauguration of Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Ado.
“The meeting continues in Abuja on Monday,” the President simply said in a news item on Nigerian Television Authority.
Also, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema, confirmed to reporters that the meeting would continue on Monday, saying that some disturbing development was emanating from the Gambia, hence the need for the leaders to meet again in Abuja.
The political impasse in The Gambia started when President Yahya Jammeh who had earlier conceded defeat in the country’s presidential election after a 22-year rule, later recanted, asking for fresh polls to be conducted by a “god-fearing and independent electoral commission.”
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which has insisted that Jammeh must quit the stage for the President-elect, Adama Barrow, on January 19, 2017, had at its summit in Abuja on December 17, 2016, chosen Buhari as the Mediator for The Gambia with Ghana’s outgoing President, Mr. John Mahama, as Co-Mediator.
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Source PANA
