Jammeh says he's prepared for ECOWAS "war" in New Year address

"Give me a chance to make it clear that we are prepared to shield this nation against any hostility and there will be no trade off for that,'' the expressions of Gambian president Yahya Jammeh in a New Year address communicate on national TV.

Jammeh in his near fourteen minutes address utilized over portion of an ideal opportunity to attack the territorial political alliance, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) who are driving intercession endeavors in the nation taking after debated presidential decisions on December 1.

Jammeh in his address portrayed ECOWAS's position of "doing whatever it can" to implement the survey comes about as 'proclaiming war' furthermore an affront to the Gambian constitution which has clear rules on the best way to understand its inner emergency.

''What is obviously undeniable is the choice of ECOWAS to actualize the consequences of the December first 2016 race comes about by whatever methods conceivable. It is absolutely unlawful as it disregards the rule of non-impedance in the inside issues of part states. Which is a dug in condition in the ECOWAS arrangement.

''It is in actuality a statement of war and an affront to our constitution. It is along these lines completely unsatisfactory. This explicit, unbiased and one-dimensional approach unmistakably demonstrates that the part of ECOWAS is not predicated on the quest for equity in the determination of this stalemate.

ECOWAS is on record to have said that it would take "every single essential activity" to determine the political stop. ECOWAS commission boss, Marcel de Souza cautioned that a military intercession could be utilized to reestablish the general population's desire if intervention endeavors led by Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, neglected to induce Jammeh to surrender control.

Jammeh lost the December 1 surveys and prior surrendered annihilation to Adama Barrow as president-elect, he however reported an abrogation of the outcomes and required a rerun of the surveys refering to anomalies in numbering of votes as per him as conceded by the discretionary body.

ECOWAS designated Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari and Ghana's John Dramani Mahama as lead go betweens in the political impasse in Gambia. The gathering said it will go to the initiation of Adama Barrow on January 19, a position Jammeh has in the past tested.

Senegal, Gambia's exclusive land neighbor has said military mediation will be the final resort and that they trusted Jammeh will see reason and handover official power gently. Senegal's position is additionally supported by Guinea. In the interim the Supreme Court has planned January 10 for the preparatory becoming aware of a survey appeal to documented by Jammeh's gathering.