The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has said that the Gambian President Yahya Jammeh played a "ruse" on her by recording a telephone conversation between the two leaders and broadcasting it later on national Television.

According to Ceoafrica, during the call, President Jammeh said he had filed an injunction at the Supreme Court, which the country’s chief justice, Emmanuel Fagbenle has today said he would not rule upon.

Yahya Jammeh asked the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), to help supply new judges, saying the only "peaceful resolution of the impasse was through the courts", which Sirleaf replied that she would "work on this right away".

The Liberian President has disclosed that Jammeh had been playing a game with her.

“Unfortunately, being the person that he is, he recorded and televised the conversation without advising me of his intention to do so.

“Let me make it very, very clear that there is no change in ECOWAS’s position and the constitution of the Gambia must be respected.

“My only duty was to take his appeal and pass it on to the mediating team.

“At the time he called me I was thinking that he was going to find a way out of this and he was going to be able to work with the team but clearly, clearly it was just a game.

It was just a ruse on his part”. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, said.