Former security guard defeats African dictator to become PRESIDENT of Gambia

Incoming Gambia President Adama Barrow

A former Argos security guard who worked in the store on London's Holloway Road has been elected president of Gambia. 

Now the country's opposition leader, Adama Barrow today said he was expecting a phone call from President Yahya Jammeh conceding defeat in Gambia's election.

Yahya Jammeh 

Barrow said he was still waiting for an official result from the electoral commission but that his own count showed he had won the poll. Dictator Yahya Jammeh vowed to rule his country for 'a billion years', but has now been toppled by his unlikely rival.

Jammeh, a friend of Libya's late Colonel Gaddafi, ruled the west African state of Gambia through a bizarre personality cult of witchcraft and brutality. 

He claimed to have invented his own herbal HIV 'cure', and was once accused of force-feeding hallucinogenic potions to an entire village of people he thought had bewitched his aunt.

The man who styled himself 'Excellency Sheikh Professor Doctor President' has been defeated by Mr Barrow, who spent his early years tackling shoplifters at the Argos store. 

Source: Dailymail