Presidential Election: Here Comes Day Of Official Results

The President of the Constitutional Council, Clément Atangana in a press release on Friday, October 19, 2018 announced that the results of the October 7, 2018 presidential election will be proclaimed this Monday, October 22, 2018 in a solemn public hearing at the Inaugural Hall of the Yaounde Confe rence Centre beginning at 11: 00 a.m. Nine candidates participated in the presidential election.

The proclamation of the results is in respect of Section 137 of the Electoral Code which provides that, “The Constitutional Council shall adopt and proclaim the results of the presidential election within no more than 15 days of the close of the poll.” Today Monday, October 22 makes the 15th day from the day of the conduct of the poll.

The solemnity of the event and the importance of the election of the President of the Republic is demonstrated through the calibre of State dignitaries invited, with the highest in rank being the President of the Senate who is the second personality in the country coming after the President of the Republic.

Today’s official proclamation of the presidential election results is the logical culmination of the systematic post-electoral process. It comes after the National Commission for the Final Counting of Votes submitted its report to the Constitutional Council. It also comes after 18 postelectoral petitions calling for either the partial or total cancellation of the result had been ruled on and rejected by the Constitutional Council.

The public hearings to rule on the petitions chaired by the President of the Constitutional Council, Clément Atangana started on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 and ended in the early hours of Friday, October 19, 2018. The last petition to be ruled on was filed by the candidate of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), Joshua Nambangi Osih calling for the total cancellation of election advancing allegations of fraud and the fact that the election did not take place in the socio-political crisis-ridden North West and South West Regions.

Other candidates in the October 7 presidential poll who fil...