(JollofNews)- The Gambia’s electoral commission has cleared the nomination of all the three candidates seeking to contest next month’s presidential election. As reported earlier by your JollofNews, all the candidates submitted for scrutiny during their nominations a declaration of their assets and showed proof to the electoral commission that they[Read More…]
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Gambia 2016: Electoral Commission To Decide Candidates’ Eligibility
(JollofNews) – The Gambia’s electoral commission (IEC) will today make a decision on the eligibility of the various candidates seeking to contest next month’s presidential election. Both candidates including President Yahya Jammeh and his challengers, Adama Barrow of the opposition coalition and Mamma Kandeh of the Gambia Democratic Congress, have[Read More…]
Gambia 2016: Jammeh Submits Nomination For Re-election
(JollofNews) – President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia’s on Thursday submitted his candidacy to seek a fifth term in December’s presidential election. Jammeh, 51, who took power in a bloodless coup in 1994 was accompanied to Independent Electoral Commission’s office in Kanifing by his wife, Zined Jammeh, senior government officials[Read More…]