Adama Barrow Unseats Gambian President Jammeh In Shocking Victory

Adama Narrow has been declared victor of Gambia Presidential election after defeating President Yahya Jammeh. who has been in power since 1994.

Ruth Maclean, a reporter with the UK’s Guardian newspaper in the Gambia, was tweeting details about development that President Jammeh was about to concede defeat to Adama Barrow.

Mr. Barrow, 51, has never held public office, with most of his experience being in property development and other business ventures.

Gambia has a new president following Yaya Jammeh’s defeat at the polls on Friday.

Hopes weren’t high for a peaceful transfer of power, with a crackdown on opposition leaders months before the polls, the banning of worldwide observers or post-election demonstrations, and then the switching off of the internet. Jammeh ruled Gambia since 1994 and many times he expressed his commitment to stay at the head at the government ‘for a 1,000 years, and according to the will of Ala’.

Supporters of opposition Gambian presidential candidate Adama Barrow dance at the venue of a political rally in Wellingara on November 28. “I will help him work towards the transition”, he said, confirming that he would not contest the result”. “You can not stop us and you can not stop them”, said Barrow after voting.

Opposition candidate Adama Barrow pulled off a stunning victory in The Gambia, comfortably winning a presidential election and putting an end to the 22-year rule of Yahya Jammeh, official results showed Friday. The outgoing president once vowed to rule the Gambia for “a billion years”, and recently said that he would not accept the result if he lost.

“We encourage all Gambians to respect the election results and the government of Gambia to respect the rights of citizens to freely assemble as they respond to the results”. Eight opposition parties united behind Barrow during the campaign.

In addition to shutting down internet services, Jammeh had phone services shuttered, preventing Gambians from making and receiving worldwide calls.

Human rights groups have accused Jammeh, who has in the past claimed he can cure Aids and infertility, of repression and abuses.

The real estate mogul pledged to introduce an independent judiciary, promote media freedom, establish a two-term limit for the presidency and make the civil service transparent and accountable.