A high powered delegation of ECOWAS heads of state are in the Gambia to attempt to speak to Yahya Jammeh to reconsider his decision to hold on to power after losing elections held earlier this month.
Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama, alongside the ECOWAS Chair Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia and Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari; would seek to convince the former military leader to concede and hand over power to the opposition leader, Amada Barrow.
Jammeh initially conceded defeat to Barrow, the opposition leader who won the polls, but then changed his mind and called for fresh elections, claiming irregularities in the voting process which in his mind, invalidated the results.

In Banjul, with other colleague Heads of State from the subregion, to help mediate post election issues in The Gambia. pic.twitter.com/5mYQ7Cvbdh

— John Dramani Mahama (@JDMahama) December 13, 2016

Jammeh has been head of the tiny West African since taking power in a military coup in 1994.