President Jammeh declares State of Emergency (Video)

Gambia

In yet another attempt to cling to power beyond his tenure which ends tomorrow, Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh has declared a State of Emergency.

Jammeh said he was making the declaration “to prevent a constitutional crisis and power vacuum.”

The walls around Jammeh appear to be cracking as Four Ministers including the Foreign Minister and the Finance Minister, resigned from his government.

Following the failed mediation attempts by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Nigeria is believed to have deployed a war ship which is on its way to Gambia, while ground troops are being prepared in neighbouring country - Senegal.

Jammeh who has ruled for over 22 years following a coup in 1994, lost the election to President-elect Adama Barrow by a narrow margin. He initially conceded defeat but a week later contested the results, after it emerged that there were some tallying errors in the results. The revised results released by the election umpire did not change the outcome of the election - as it only narrowed the margin of win between Jammeh and Barrow.