Gambia's Yahya Jammeh rejects election results a week after conceding defeat: TV

By AFP

Gambia

DEC 10, 2016 LISTEN

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, seen December 3, 2016, had originally said he would accept the presidential election results showing his loss to opponent Adama Barrow. By Handout (GRTS - Gambia Radio and Television Services/AFP/File)

Banjul (Gambia) (AFP) - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh said Friday that he would not recognise the results of the December 1 elections, a week after he conceded defeat to his opponent Adama Barrow.

"In the same way that I accepted the results faithfully believing that the Independent Electoral Commission was independent and honest and reliable, I hereby reject the results in totality. Let me repeat: I will not accept the results based on what has happened," he said in a statement broadcast on state television.