Alhajii Yahya AJJ Jameh, the Gambia's
president of 22 years has lost the post to a property developer, Adama Barrow, in
the general election conducted in the country on Thursday.
Yahya Jammeh assumed power as a military
junta in a coup-de-tat that ousted alhaji Dawda Jawara in 1994.
Before announcing the final result, the electoral
commission chief, Alieu Momar Njie appealed for calm as the country entered
unchartered waters.
The Gambia has not had a smooth power transfer since
independence in 1965.
Mr Njie said that Mr Barrow had won Thursday's
election by more than 50,000 votes. He runs a property company which he founded
in 2006.
A devout Muslim, Mr Jammeh, 51, once said he would
rule for "one billion years" if "Allah willed it".
"It's really unique that someone who has been
ruling this country for so long has accepted defeat," Mr Njie told
reporters.
Mr Jammeh's defeat was celebrated in The Gambia, where
most people thought the result will favour him having served four terms as
president but now this unpredictable and ruthless man is to be replaced by a
property developer.
Mr Jammeh's 22 years in power has been ccategorised as
tyranny; he was not journalists’ friendly and opposition are always silent by
cruel means ,
There was also a time he boasted of having the ability
to cure AIDS and infertility.
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