People’s Alliance Party has been finally registered as a political party by the nation’s electoral body a year after its formation.

The party leader Ebrima Tabora Manneh was rejected by the Independent Electoral Commission last year ahead of the presidential election for not meeting up some requirement under the Electoral Act. 

Mr Manneh then joined other rejected candidates to support Barrow’s re-election.

However, the country’s electoral chief Alieu Momar Njai said in a statement that: “The Independent Electoral Commission wishes to bring to your notice that People’s Alliance Party (PAP) has been registered as a political party in The Gambia on 7th November 2022 under section 105 of the Electoral Act 2009 [as amended].”

According to Njai in the statement, the party has its secretariat in Grand Street in Banjul with its colour of navy blue and Gambian broom as its symbol.

Mr Manneh, a US trained accountant and secretary general of the party, told reporters that he came into politics to bring developments for the country and to end “the poor economic situation of the country and politics of separation in this small country.”

Reporting by Adama Makasuba