[7] The People's Progressive Party remains active, but lacking the same level of support it garnered in the 20th century.

[9] The party won the 1962 general election, and in October 1963, upon the attainment of self-government, their leader, Dawda Jawara, became Prime Minister of the Gambia.

[12][13] The coup was put down by Senegalese intervention and as a result, Senegal and the Gambia formed the Senegambia Confederation.

[14] The Gambia was ruled militarily until 1996 when Yahya Jammeh was elected as president with the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) as his party.

[16] The People's Progressive Party was created by rural populations as a reaction against urban areas exerting control over the political arena post-colonialism.

[17] The People's Progressive Party's website currently states, "The PPP believes that a less pervasive and intrusive government as opposed to the current over-centralized and authoritarian regime is necessary in order to release the creative energies of the Gambian people and to encourage wider social, economic, and political inclusion.

"[18] Throughout the People's Progressive Party's period in Gambian national spotlight, there were times of growing discontent with the government.

[12] The Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) is a political party formed after the 1994 coup d'état.

The ideology that led to the coup was discontent with the PPP; alleged corruption and a lack of economic development over time.

[12][20] The main figure that dominated the APRC was Yahya Jammeh, who became president in 1996 and served until the 2016 Gambian presidential election.

[24] After Jammeh was not re-elected following the 2016 Gambian presidential election, Jallow was appointed the minister of agriculture as he was in the Jawara administration.