The Gambia's five presidential candidates, including incumbent President Yaya Jammeh, started campaigning on Wednesday for the country's top executive post, AFP reported.
The presidential campaign will end on 16 October, two days before voters go to the polls. In addition to rallies and meetings, each candidate is to receive five minutes' airtime per day on national radio and television while state media are to allocate identical coverage time to each party's rallies, AFP reported. This will be Jammeh's second presidential election. He seized power in 1994 in a bloodless coup and was elected head of state in 1996.
The other four contenders include Sherif Mustapha Dibba of the National
Convention Party, Hamat Bah of the National Reconciliation Party, Sidia
Jatta of the People's Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism and Ousainou Darboe of the United Democratic Party.
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