President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed disappointment that leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had to use `strong-arm tactics’ to get former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh out of office.
Jammeh, who re-contested Gambia’s presidential election on Dec. 1, 2016, had refused to step aside even after failing to win the re-election.
President Buhari, who stated this when he received the visiting Gambian President, Mr Adama Barrow, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday, said Nigeria and the ECOWAS had no option left than using the unpopular tactics.
“We had to go through those actions because it was the only option for Nigeria and ECOWAS,’’ the President told Mr. Adama Barrow, the President of the Gambia who succeeded Jammeh.
President Buhari recalled that in spite of all entreaties, the former President refused to accept the outcome of the election he superintended which was widely accepted as credible.
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