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Analyst hails ECOWAS Chair Sirleaf for condemning Jammeh's action

by Stephen Jakes
19 Jan 2017 at 18:52hrs | Views
A Zimbabwean political analyst Rejoice Ngwenya has hailed Analyst hailed the  ECOWAS Chair Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for condemning Yahya Jammeh's action and declaring that the Western African bloc with ded[ploy soldiers to get Jammeh out of State house.

Jammeh was defeated by Adama Barrow in an election in December and firstly conceded defeat but later backed down saying he will not leave the helm citing that the polls were flawed. Barrow has been sworn in at his country's Embassy in Senegal.

"ECOWAS chair, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has done what SADC has failed to do to Mugabe for almost thirty years. She and her ECOWAS team have told vanquished former president Yahya Jammeh that Adama Barrow will be inaugurated today as President of Gambia," Ngwenya said.

"Jammeh, like his Zanu PF counterparts, refuses to vacate office even AFTER losing elections, so the ECOWAS army will be in there today roasting a couple of black asses. In 2018, ECOWAS must do a ‘solidarity thing' for us in Zimbabwe, if this 90-something old man does an Adama Barrow on us."

"Meanwhile, I hear there is a new ‘ZEC' in Kenya, after the previous one was hounded out by angry Kenyans for doing a ‘Rita Makarau thing' of favouring the ruling Kenyatta guy."


Source - Byo24News