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The Chairman of the ECOWAS, President John Dramani Mahama on Sunday paid a fleeting visit to The Gambia following an attempted coup in the country.

“In the African tradition, if anything happens in your brother's house you have to go and visit and make sure that things are okay, and that is why I came,” he said.

The President who was accompanied by the Vice President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Toga Gayewea Mcintosh told journalist when he arrived in The Gambia that ECOWAS is against coup.

“ECOWAS protocols do not support violent overthrow of governments, so we want to remind all member states of the protocols that ECOWAS has, that change of government must be through democratic means and as far as possible we should try and abide by that,” he noted.

President Jammeh seized power in the tiny West African nation in 1994 and has been accused of authoritarianism.

He was abroad when gunfire broke out near the presidential palace in the capital, Banjul, on 30 December.