Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh attends the plenary session of the Africa-South America Summit on Margarita Island September 27, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Files
(CNN)Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has declared his "total rejection" of the results of his country's December 1 election and called for his country to vote again -- a week after accepting his defeat.
Jammeh, who has ruled Gambia with an iron grip since seizing power in a 1994 military coup, suffered a shock loss after running for his fifth term in office.
On December 2, Jammeh accepted his defeat and congratulated Adama Barrow on his victory in an address broadcast by Gambian state television. But he now refuses to accept the outcome.
"I announce to you, Gambians, my total rejection of the election results and thereby annulling the elections in its entirety," he said in a televised speech Friday.
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2 comments:
His mistake was to not hire Democrat operatives propagandize the populace and to rig the vote.
If only he had used electronic voting booths like Venezuela has done, he could have gone Stalin on his populace.
Obama must not care about Gabon. Bill Clinton and Obama both sent operatives to interfere with Israeli elections. Obama must consider Gabon a backwater.
Until the leaders of Africa's countries learn to peacefully transition power, those countries will never progress.
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