Gambia: APRC Election Petition to Be Withdrawn

Lawyer Edward A. Gomez, attorney for the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction -APRC- party has told the Supreme Court of The Gambia that he had received instructions from his client to withdraw the election petition that was earlier filed after the country's 1st December 2016 Presidential Elections.

The Supreme Court penal consist of five judges, namely: Hassan B. Jallow, the chief justice of The Gambia; Justice Nicholas Colin Browne-Marke from Sierra Leone, Justice Cherno Sulayman Jallow, Justice Mary Mamyassin Sey and Abubacarr Datti Yahaya from Nigeria. This is the court's first sitting in the new dispensation since it was not constituted from June, 2015.

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