Edward David Singateh is a former Gambian politician and former member of the cabinet during the Jammeh era.
[1] Immediately after Yahya Jammeh's coup in July 1994, Singateh was appointed Minister of Defense.
[1] After the 1996 presidential election he was designated by Jammeh as Vice-president on 30 September 1996.
[1] However, Singateh was never confirmed as Vice-president by the National Assembly of the Gambia.
Jammeh also fired Singateh as general secretary of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC),[4] a position which he had held since 1997.