Gambia's President-elect assasinated
Gambia's president-elect, Adama Barrow, has been assassinated by unknown gunmen. The surprise winner of the Gambian Presidential poll had vowed last week that he would take office on 19th of January, despite the baffling refusal of the defeated incumbent president, Yahya Jammeh, to relinquish power.
Mr. Barrow's assailants overpowered his security guards in an onslaught that also left two of his security guards dead, and six others severely injured by gunshots.
President Yahya Jammeh, who is the prime suspect of the crime, was quick to deny having any hand in his rival's killing. The assassination of the president-elect comes few days after he referred to the country's constitution that court action cannot prevent the winner of the poll from assuming office as stipulated in the Gambian constitution. He said this in response to the incumbent president's assertion that the ECOWAS' decision to send troops to ensure a peaceful transition of power was a call for war, and thereby called for fresh poll. It should be crystal clear that filing an election petition is the private matter of a loser in an election. It does not prevent mandatory constitutional process from taking it's cause" Mr. Barrow added.
Gambia's president-elect, Adama Barrow, has been assassinated by unknown gunmen. The surprise winner of the Gambian Presidential poll had vowed last week that he would take office on 19th of January, despite the baffling refusal of the defeated incumbent president, Yahya Jammeh, to relinquish power.
President Yahya Jammeh, who is the prime suspect of the crime, was quick to deny having any hand in his rival's killing. The assassination of the president-elect comes few days after he referred to the country's constitution that court action cannot prevent the winner of the poll from assuming office as stipulated in the Gambian constitution. He said this in response to the incumbent president's assertion that the ECOWAS' decision to send troops to ensure a peaceful transition of power was a call for war, and thereby called for fresh poll. It should be crystal clear that filing an election petition is the private matter of a loser in an election. It does not prevent mandatory constitutional process from taking it's cause" Mr. Barrow added. 
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