Gambia: Nigeria May Grant Yahya Jammeh Asylum

12 January 2017

The House of Representatives Thursday will debate granting an asylum to the president of the Gambia Yahya Jammeh if he agrees to step down,the spokesman of the House, Abdulrazak Namdas said.

Jammeh lost reelection to opposition candidate Adama Barrow after ruling for 22 years. He rejected the election results "in totality" a week after conceding defeat, putting the country at the risk of a political crisis.

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