More details of how former President Yahya Jammeh exited Gambia have emerged. It has now being revealed that the plane that flew him out into exile belongs to All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Nation reports.
After Jammeh yielded to last-minute pressure from Guinean President Alpha Conde and his Mauritanian counterpart Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz, who were with him between Friday and Saturday, to leave and save The Gambia from crisis, he was confronted by the big question of how to fly out.
The leaders, the newspaper said, reached out to Tinubu who authorised his private aircraft to be used to fly Jammeh out of Banjul.
Tinubu’s VP-CBT Falcon Jet, which had been with President Conde, who is a close friend of the former Lagos State governor, eventually flew out with Jammeh, his wife, mother and President Conde on board.
Tinubu made his jet available in order to “facilitate the quick exit of Jammeh and lead to the restoration of peace and democracy in The Gambia,” the report said.
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