The Independent Electoral Commission today began nominations for presidential aspirants for the December 4 presidential election.

Among requirements to be a president, one must be a citizen of The Gambia and resides in the country for not less than five years to the election.

Former justice minister Joseph Henry Joof, born in 1960, was the first candidate to file in his nomination at the IEC.

He is a Gambian lawyer who served as the President of The Gambia Bar Association in the late 1980s.

Marie Socks, the lone female presidential  aspirants also followed Joof to file in her nomination as she expressed high hopes of sweeping votes on December 4. 

Reporting by Adama Makasuba