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Just in: ECOWAS leaders arrive Aso Rock, meet Buhari over Gambia

West African leaders have begun arriving in Abuja, the federal capital ahead of a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari to discuss the issue of Gambia’s transition of power.
President Buhari (first left) met with Gambia's Yahya Jammeh (middle) alongside other ECOWAS leaders last year but the leader has remained adamant.
Also in Nigeria for the meeting already is former Ghana president John Dramani Mahama, who is also a co-mediator with President Buhari on the Gambia change of power issue.

The leaders are gathering to strategise on how to get Gambia President Yahya Jammeh to leave power after losing to president-elect Adama Barrow on December 1, 2016.
Jammeh had earlier conceded defeat to Barrow but quickly made a u-turn and refused to hand over power.
A visit to his country by a high-powered ECOWAS delegation led by President Buhari could not get Jammeh to change his mind.
ECOWAS has now confirmed readiness to use military action to remove Jammeh from power if by the January 19 date for the transition he does not hand over power.
Jammeh, on his part, has described ECOWAS’s action as interference in the activities of a sovereign state and declared any military action by the ECOWAS as an act of war.
Meanwhile, top Nigerian lawyer, Femi Falana has said that the stubbornness so far exhibited by President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia was learnt from some of his colleagues in Africa like Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria and John Mahama, the immediate past leader of Ghana.
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