Controversial President of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, has lost the country’s presidential election to leading opposition candidate, Adama Barrow.
Barrow scored 263,515 votes to defeat Jammeh who polled 212,099 votes, the electoral commission chief said.
The Gambia’s Minister of External Affairs and the head of the police addressed the country on Friday, December 2, and called for calm, the BBC reported.
Jammeh has ruled The Gambia for 22 years after taking power by plotting a coup.
Jammeh who is ruler of the small West African country was expected to concede defeat, and feelers from the country indicate he had done so, taking after former President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria who made history by calling President Muhammadu Buhari to conceded defeat ahead of final counting of ballot in the 2015 presidential election.