GAMBIA, 1 February, 2021 (TON): On Saturday evening, in order to support his candidacy for the presidential election, the President of Gambia, Adama Barrow launched his political party named, National People's Party (NPP).

All the effort is for the elections of 4 December, 2021

In a TV-broadcast of a meeting that saw a large crowd of delegates and supporters gathered at the Independence Stadium in Bakau, about 12 km from the capital Banjul, the 55-year-old politician said the NPP "is the party of all categories, based on the notion of truly democratic and patriotic citizenship."

The party was created and declared in December 2019, however, Barrow waited to officially launch the NPP.

Perhaps intentionally, in light of the violent protests against him that same month and also in January 2020 for not honoring his pledge to step down after three years following his December 2016 win and hold a new election in which he could not stand.

All of this is the aftermath when Barrow won the December 2016 elections backed by a coalition of seven opposition parties and ended the 22-year long tenure of President Yahya Jammeh, who had been forced into exile under the pressure of a West African military intervention, after refusing to admit defeat.

Since then, President Barrow has been the leader of the smallest state in continental Africa.

He held the charge in January 2017.

With this move of launching a party of his own, it is likely to say that the man has got much hold of the politics, once backed by the opposition but now got a team of his own.