He is quiet, understated and until recently unknown, but now presidential election winner Adama Barrow, a former security guard, has become the flagbearer for a new era of change in The Gambia.
A political novice whose lack of baggage has endeared him to Gambians, the businessman represented a coalition of parties who banded together to upset Yahya Jammeh’s 22 years of unbroken rule in the tiny West African nation.
It’s very clear, the writing is on the wall that I’m going to win,” the 51-year-old told AFP by telephone before voting Thursday.
Just six months earlier, he was a political unknown.
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