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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Jammeh’s lawyer advises him to change decision By Omar Bah Former president Jammeh\u2019s lawyer Edward Gomez, has urged him to reconsider his decision of putting the spanner in the works of the APRC-NPP alliance.<\/p>\n

Reacting to Jammeh\u2019s decision which has split the green party, Gomez who also served as a Justice minister in Jammeh\u2019s government stated: \u201cLike many members of the APRC, I was personally disappointed [with Jammeh\u2019s pronouncement] because what unites us is better than what divides us. I am advising him to accept the mandate of the people because the voice of the people is the voice of God.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am also advising Jammeh to accept Adama Barrow\u2019s presidency as the will of God. The people decided and voted in Barrow; he should accept it. Any patriot should first of all think of the people and not your own personal interest.\u201d Gomez was one of the lawyers who defended Jammeh in his failed bid to maintain a stranglehold onto power after losing the 2016 election.
\nThe veteran lawyer said he has firmly hitched his wagon to Barrow\u2019s train and will vote for him in the December 4th election. \u201cPresident Barrow has done well in some areas and he could be criticised in some areas due mainly to his inexperience. There are a lot of errors but also there are a lot of good things he did. We all make mistakes but such mistakes are not enough to say he is a failure. He has done a lot for the country and he will do more with time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he regretted representing Jammeh in 2016, Gomes retorted: \u201cI have not regretted anything. I did what I did as a lawyer. Just like a doctor, you don\u2019t run away from a patient because he or she has a terrible disease. Many doctors died trying to cure patients.
\n\u201cIn fact, after the Second World War in the Nuremberg trials, one of the lawyers was a Jew defending a Nazi. So I haven\u2019t regretted anything because everything I did, I did professionally and within the codes of the ethics of the profession,\u201d he said.
\nGomes added: \u201cThere is a miscomprehension. I was not Yahya Jammeh\u2019s lawyer. Jammeh had his own lawyers but when he asked them to file the election petition in court they declined. They betrayed him. I was the last person he reached out to and I was contacted on a Friday between 5-6pm by Yankuba Colley on his behalf to file the petition.\u201d
\nThe senior lawyer said Gambians should pray for \u201ca peaceful Gambia and above all must try as much as possible to move away from the politics of tribe or religion\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. Jammeh’s lawyer advises him to change decision By Omar Bah Former president Jammeh\u2019s lawyer Edward Gomez, has urged him to reconsider his decision of putting the spanner in the works of the APRC-NPP alliance. 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