President of the Gambia, Yahya Jammeh: toppled via ballot box
Gambia’s opposition candidate Adama Barrow has won the presidential polls with 263,515 votes, beating the incumbent Yahya Jammeh, with over 50,000 votes.
The country’s electoral commission in announcing the result of the election held Thursday today, said Jammeh scored 212,009 votes
The commission’s chair, Alieu Njie said Mama Kandeh, the third candidate in the running, came third with 102,969 votes.
Barrow, a real estate developer is a surprised winner of the election, ending the 22 year old reign of incumbent Yahya Jammeh.
“What we see in this result is a change of government. The incumbent will call the new president to congratulate and wish him well,” Njie said.
Jammeh has ruled the tiny African country for 22 years with an iron fist and was widely…
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