Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) rose from a three hours meeting, in Abuja, the Nigeria capital, on Monday with a resolution to send yet another delegation to the Gambian President Yaya Jammeh on Wednesday January 11th to persuade him further to hand over power to the newly elected President Adama Barrow.
Nigeria's Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama says that the meeting will aim to press Mr. Jammeh to hand over power to opposition leader.
The Gambia Supreme Court was set to listen to a petition tomorrow by President Yayha Jammeh challenging the 1st December election but reports say that the foreign judges from Sierra Leone and Nigeria will not be travelling to Banjul."
The Delegation which will be led by President Muhammadu Buhari who is ECOWAS chief mediator to the Gambia’s crisis.
Other ECOWAS leaders present at the meeting were Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Senegalese President Macky Sall and the immediate past president of Ghana John Mahama who is the co-mediator.
The leaders were however silent on the next line of action should the Yahya Jammeh fail to heed the calls of the sub-regional body
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