Tribal chieftains are touring the country to rally support for President Yahya Jammeh's coronation.This would be very much in keeping for Jammeh, whose obsession with honorifics even led him to claim an admiralship in the fictitious "Nebraska Navy" earlier this year."
"The president has brought development to the country, and for that he deserves to be crowned King of The Gambia," said Junkung Camara, chief of the western region of Foni Brefet. "This is the only way the Gambian people can express our gratitude to a leader who has done a lot for his country."
Thursday, November 11, 2010
King of Gambia
"The Gambia's title-obsessed president -- he prefers to be addressed as His Excellency the President Sheik Professor Alhaji Doctor Yahya Jammeh -- may soon be adding a new one to his letterhead: