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Essa Mbye Faal Accepts Election Defeat

International lawyer backed down after initially rejecting Saturday's election results which saw incumbent reelected

Modou S. Joof by Modou S. Joof
December 7, 2021
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Faal speaks at a presidential candidates debate on November 20, 2021 (Photo Credit: Comission on Political Debates)

Faal speaks at a presidential candidates debate on November 20, 2021 (Photo Credit: Comission on Political Debates)

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Independent Candidate who secured only 2% of the votes cast in Saturday’s presidential election, Essa Mbye Faal, told reporters on Monday he has now accepted the verdict of Gambians who relected President Adama Barrow on Saturday.

Faal joined Ousainou Darboe – Barrow’s main rival who emerged runner-up with 28% of the total votes cast – and Mama Kandeh who emerged 3rd with 12% of the votes, into rejecting the results three hours before Adama Barrow was declared winner with 53% of the votes.

“I have called President-elect Adama Barrow and congratulated him on his re-election. We have heard a good conversation about the future of this country,” Faal said. “…the credibility of the election was confirmed by both international and domestic observers.”

Darboe and Kandeh have yet to withdraw their rejection of the December 4 election results, which local and international observers said was conducted in an atmosphere free and fair. They didn’t file a petition with the Supreme Court to challenge Barrow’s election either.

Kandeh told journalists on Monday that he will not congratulate Barrow. “I am still not accepting it [the results]. I will not take my phone and call Adama Barrow and tell him he has won. I will not do it. I don’t have the power to stop him being president but I own myself,” said Kandeh, who is Barrow’s agemate at 56.

Faal, 55, is the former prosecutor at Gambia’s Truth Commission, who helped expose massive human rights violations allegedly committed under Yahya Jammeh’s 22-years rule.

He is a former defence attorney at the International Criminal Court and had represented Charlse Taylor of Liberia, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi of Libya, and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya – all of whom faced war crime charges.

Faal later worked as a senior lawyer for the ICC before he moved to Gambia to lead the Truth Commission’s investigations into human rights abuses.

 

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Modou S. Joof

Modou S. Joof

Modou S. Joof is an award-winning freelance journalist and social media reporter based  in The Gambia. He is currently the correspondent for Bloomberg News in Banjul. He is a trainer at the Media Academy for Journalism and Communication (MAJaC) in Bakau New Town; and a  photographer. He blogs at The North Bank Evening Standard (TNBES), and at Front Page International (FPI). Previously, worked as managing editor at The Voice newspaper in Serekunda, a contributor to VOA English to Africa Service (USA), and Africa in Fact Magazine (South Africa). He has worked as a Fixer for Swedish Broadcasting Corporation during Gambia's political crisis in 2016/17.

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