Official results from Gambia’s Independent
Electoral Commission (IEC) indicates that opposition leader Adama Barrow has beaten
incumbent President Yahya Jammeh in the capital Banjul.
Barrow took nearly 50
percent of the vote in Banjul’s three constituencies followed by Jammeh who had
43 percent and the third party candidate Mama Kandeh taking 7.6 percent.
AFP reports of heavy security deployment in the capital on
Friday made up of military and police personnel with some wearing masks.
They are reported to have set up
checkpoints every few hundred metres on the outskirts of the capital.
Vote counting is slow and as at
Friday noon, almost 50% of results are yet to be declared.
Internet and phone service were
briefly resumed around 0500 GMT after they were shut down Wednesday
evening, AFP reports.
Results are being released by
different unofficial sources online and on air by the state television and radio
which is relied on by many Gambians.
Both Adama Barrow and Yahya
Jammeh said they had won by a huge margin after Thursday’s vote.
“Power belongs to the people. You
cannot stop us and you cannot stop them,” Barrow said.
“This is the biggest landslide in
the history of my elections,” Jammeh predicted.
-Africanews
AEP
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