The 2016 Gambian Presidential Election is scheduled to be held on Thursday Dec 01,2016
About 900,000 people were eligible to vote in the election, casting their ballots by putting marbles into a drum representing their chosen candidate. Gambian authorities say the system avoids confusion for many illiterate voters, and the risk of spoiled ballots
Presidential Candidates
1)Incumbent President Yahya Jammeh representing the Alliance For Patriotic Reorientation and Reconstruction
2) Adama Barrow of Independent Coalition and
3)Mamma Kandeh of the Gambia Democratic Congress,
Yahya Jammeh loses presidential election to Adamu Barrow
The Gambia’s autocratic president, Yahya Jammeh, who once claimed a “billion-year” mandate to rule, has agreed to concede defeat after a shock election loss to a real-estate developer.
Jammeh has ruled the tiny west African nation for more than two decades. If he goes ahead with a peaceful handover of power, challenger Adama Barrow will become its third head of state since independence in 1962.
The head of the Gambia’s electoral commission, Alieu Momarr Njai, said Jammeh would concede on Friday Dec 02,2016
Yahya Jammeh, Gambia's president of 22 years Yahya Jammeh will be replaced by a property developer, Adama Barrow, after losing the general election.
Yahya Jammeh, who came to power in a coup in 1994, has agreed to accept defeat, said electoral commission chief Alieu Momar Njie.
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