Buba Sidiki Michael Baldeh (11 November 1953 - 9 July 2014)[1] was a Gambian politician, journalist and editor.
Buba subsequently went on to serve several posts after the 1994 coup d’tat until his fall out with the then President of The Republic of The Gambia Yahya Jammeh.
[2] His father, Michael Baldeh, was a member of the House of Representatives (now called National Assembly of the Gambia) during the British colonial period.
However, his relationship with the APRC weakened after he was arrested by the National Intelligence Agency for forging evidence in 2004.
[1] After an attempted coup by Ndure Chum in 2006, Baldeh moved and lived in exile in Senegal from 2006 until his death in 2014.