Gambia: YAYA JAMMEH IS NOW A REBEL LEADER

Certainly, monday morning quarterbacking is not going to help. Should have, Could have and Would have. What is a fact here is that Yaya Jammeh is not graceful and he is no longer a legitimate president of the Gambia. He is a rebel leader who just committed treasonous a treasonous offence by overthrowing the Constitution.

There are clearly legally, outlined procedures as to how election results are contested. YOU GO TO THE COURTS! NO person (certainly not a defeated incumbent) has any rights to annul the elections. Yaya Has NOT coup'd Barrow. He did not oust the Coalition. These people have not even assumed office yet. Yaya Jammeh is subverting THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. Let us not delegate our collective rights/will to a few. However, what is expected of Barrow and the Coalition is to be firm and show absolute leadership at this time. 14 hours since Yaya chose to be a rebel and the country did not know where we stand. The longer it takes to address this, the higher the risk of full blown violence. There should not be further delay in telling Gambians what their position is, what they intend to do, and what is expected of Gambians. SWIFTLY. This, they did at at a press conference that had president-elect flanked  in solitary and calmed defiance, by ALL senior members of the Coalition.

Yaya Jammeh is a rebel and it is sadly disappointing that our military and other security outfits watch a suicidal man who waited to whisk his family out of the Gambia before trying this stunt, are lamely watching an ex-president becoming a rebel. We all know majority of you rejoiced and were relieved at what Gambians did last week, to end your misery. But you are recoiling to watching a handful of your colleagues helped Jammeh plunge the country is not temporary fitnah. You ALL know Yaya cannot succeed. He's swinging his fists in the air, struggling to hold onto what's not there. Gambians and the international community are not going to watch him execute his foolish violent suicide attempt. The condemnations are swift, strong and unanimous from the international community Urging Jammeh to handover to president-elect without any preconditions. He's scared to go to prison, so we wants to die like Qaddafi, Samuel Doe. Do NOT help him commit suicide and take you along with him.

BARROW IS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT, AND YAYA CANNOT CHANGE THAT. Now he must act SWIFTLY by announcing his cabinet. Yaya is no longer legitimate.

Pata PJ

December 10, 2016