Africa-Press – Gambia. President Adama Barrow has called on former President Yahya Jammeh to accept his status as a former head of state, emphasizing that his time in office has come to an end.
“He is left with only one position, and I want him to hold on to that — former president. It is an honorary position,” President Barrow said during a meeting with residents of Foni at his residence in Mankamang Kunda over the weekend.
Barrow added that whether Jammeh accepts it or not, that is now his only title, describing Jammeh’s recent claims of returning to The Gambia as “mere politics.”
“If he really wanted to come back, he would have attended his mother’s funeral,” Barrow said, noting that Jammeh remains in self-imposed exile in Equatorial Guinea. “Nobody chased him from this country. The Gambia belongs to all of us.”
The president further advised Jammeh to remain calm and pray for peace in the country. “As humans, we should be mindful. There is today, but tomorrow will come — and we do not know what it brings,” he cautioned.
President Barrow’s comments come in response to Jammeh’s recent statement in which the former leader claimed that ECOWAS officials informed him that members of the coalition government were uneasy with his continued presence in the country due to his “massive support” among both the public and the military.
Jammeh also asserted that an agreement had been reached through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), allowing him to return to The Gambia within six months without preconditions — a claim that directly contradicts Barrow’s assertion of self-exile.
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