The ruling party claims that the election was void, adding that the electoral commission violated the law, and that ADAMA BARROW was not duly elected or returned as president.
The legal challenge at the Supreme Court comes amidst calls for President JAMMEH to step down after twenty-two years in power, after he reneged on his earlier concession of defeat to BARROW.
Four heads of government from West African countries, including Nigeria’s President MUHAMMADU, had also intervened and paid a visit to their Gambian counterpart in a bid to prevail on him.
But it appears that their appeal may have fallen on deaf ears, as even while the leaders of Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia where still holding talks with the Gambian leader, soldiers were deployed to seal the headquarters of the electoral commission.
