Image copyrightAFPImage captionYahya Jammeh has governed The The Gambia for 22 years The Gambia's Supreme Court is unable to quest heed the petition seeking to annul in conclusion month's election until May, primary justice Emmanuel Fagbenle says.
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The Nigerian approximate due to oversee the seven-member panel was non available till then, he said.
Longstanding ruler President Yahya Jammeh, 51, initially accepted defeat but afterwards rejected the result.
It is non nonetheless clear what volition quest house after Mr Jammeh's term ends on xviii January.
President-elect Adama Barrow is due to live inaugurated the next day. But Mr Jammeh has said he volition non pace downwards together with he has the back upward of the caput of the army
West African leaders, led past times Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, are due inwards the capital, Banjul, on Midweek inwards a last-ditch diplomatic travail to resolve the crisis.
But Mr Jammeh has rebuffed their attempts, maxim they quest keep no right to interfere.
Mr Jammeh lodged a illustration earlier the Supreme Court after the electoral committee changed roughly results.
The committee insists the number was non affected past times an initial fault together with belongings developer Mr Barrow defeated Mr Jammeh.
The Supreme Court hearing had already been delayed i time because of a shortage of sitting judges, together with other judges from neighbouring countries quest keep since been appointed.
But the Nigerian who was to human activity every bit the president of the courtroom - Onogeme Uduma - is fully booked until May.
Image copyrightITUImage captionMr Bojang has fled to Senegal "The electrical current attempts piece appearing to quest keep a veneer of constitutionalism are inwards fact an endeavor to subvert the limited volition of the Gambian electorate," the erstwhile information government minister said inwards a statement.
He urged Mr Jammeh together with his cabinet colleagues "to await into their conscience together with convey the right determination inside the nigh reasonable fourth dimension for the introduce together with hereafter of our vulnerable piddling Gambia".
Of his ain defection after 2 years of acting every bit a mouthpiece for Mr Jammeh's government, Mr Bojang said: "It is never every bit good belatedly to create the right thing."
Gambian province TV said Mr Bojang had been sacked.
The Gambia, a pop tourist destination, has non had a smoothen transfer of ability since independence from United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland inwards 1965.
Mr Jammeh seized ability inwards the tiny ground inwards 1994 together with has been defendant of human rights abuses, although he has held regular elections.
According to the electoral commission's concluding count:
- Mr Barrow won 222,708 votes (43.3%)
- President Jammeh took 208,487 (39.6%)
- A third-party candidate, Mama Kandeh, won 89,768 (17.1%)
Results were revised past times the electoral committee on five December, when it emerged that the ballots for i expanse had been added incorrectly.
