{"id":314771,"date":"2017-04-28T16:18:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=314771"},"modified":"2017-04-28T16:18:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T16:18:23","slug":"barrow-to-nana-addo-thank-you-for-helping-gambia-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=314771","title":{"rendered":"Barrow to Nana Addo: ‘Thank you for helping Gambia’ [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gambian President, Adama Barrow, has thanked President Akufo-Addo for his support in restoring democracy in The Gambia.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Barrow is in Ghana for a day’s visit.<\/p>\n

Mr. Adama Barrow, during bilateral talks with Nana Addo, expressed his gratitude to the latter for the support during the post election impasse in The Gambia, saying :”I am pleased to come and visit you in Ghana as President, as a brother and as a friend…We all contested elections at the same period, we all won the election as opposition candidates, and both incumbents lost the fight…My message is to come and say thank you.”<\/p>\n

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“We have a proverb that if you want to visit a farmer and you want to thank him for a remarkable job, you have to visit him at his or her farm and that is why I am here today. The most interesting is the ECOWAS Head of States including yourself and Ghana intervened in The Gambia….,” Mr. Barrow added.<\/p>\n

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There had been heightened tensions in The Gambia, after long-time ruler Yahya Jammeh, rejected the results of their December 1, 2016 election, weeks after he had conceded defeat to the opposition leader, Adama Barrow.<\/p>\n

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Yahya Jammeh eventually\u00a0stepped<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>down under pressure from ECOWAS and the AU.<\/p>\n

President Nana Addo for his part, expressed joy over Mr. Barrow’s visit, saying \u201cIt is a joy for us to see you here with us in Ghana. I will always have you closely associated in my memory because one of the first important decisions I had to take when I became President was about The Gambia. And that was the decision I made to support the ECOWAS military force with Ghanaian troops.”<\/p>\n

The President explained that, he decided to support the ECOWAS mission with some 208 soldiers during the post-election impasse because “the\u00a0process of democratic consolidation in Africa requires that the region’s standards will support the Gambian people.”<\/p>\n

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By: Marian Ansah & Sammy Wiafe \/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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Gambian President, Adama Barrow, has thanked President Akufo-Addo for his support in restoring democracy in The Gambia. Mr. Barrow is in Ghana for a day’s visit. Mr. Adama Barrow, during bilateral talks with Nana Addo, expressed his gratitude to the latter for the support during the post election impasse in The Gambia, saying :”I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}