AU won’t recognise Jammeh as Gambia’s president from Jan 19

The African Union will cease to recognise Gambia’ s Yahya Jammeh as the nation’ s legitimate president as of Jan . 19 . It is the date he is due to hand power to Adama Barrow , the winner of 1 December election.
The AU’ s Peace and Security Council made this declaration after a meeting in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital .
The council also warned of “ serious consequences in the event that his action causes any crisis that could lead to political disorder, humanitarian and human rights disaster , including loss of innocent lives and destruction of properties ” .
The AU declaration came on a day that President Muhammadu Buhari led a delegation of West African leaders to Banjul, Gambian capital , with the aim of persuading the soldier turned politician , to hand over power to Barrow .
Yahya ’ s political party , in the latest gambit , has gone to court to halt the inauguration of Barrow , on the basis that Jammeh ’ s challenge of the electoral result, has not been decided by the country’ s Supreme Court .
The case was adjourned for months, because the court could not form a quorum .
Meanwhile , opposition politicians are trying to offer some carrots to encourage Jammeh to leave power peacefully .