The Chairman of Togo�s Independent National Electoral Commission, Issifou Tabiou Taffa has declared Faure Gnassingbe President-Elect out of a pack of six other contestants after Togo went to the polls last Thursday.
He polled 1,243.044 representing 60.92 per cent of the total votes to beat his closest rival, Mr. Jean-Pierre Fabre of the Union of Forces for Change party who obtained 692,584, representing 33.9 percent of the official provisional results declared. Mr. Yawovi Agboyibo of Action Committee for Renewal Party (CAR) obtained 60.388 votes representing 2.96 per cent while Kodjo Mesan Agboyome Gabriel of Organization pour Batir dans l�Union un Togo Uni et Solidaire (OBUTS) got 17,397 representing 0.85 percent.
Others are Madam Adjamagbo Johnson Kafui of the African People�s Democratic Convention (CDPA), 13451 representing 0.6 per cent, Kagbara Bassabi of Democratic People�s Party (PDP) 8,357 representing 0.41 per cent and Mr. Lawson Jean Nicholas Messan of Party for Redemption and Renewal (PRR), 6.029 representing 0.30 per cent.
Faure Gnassingbe of the People�s Rally Party (PRP) won four out of the five economic regions of Togo. They are Savannah, Kara, Central and Plateau regions. Soon after the results were announced, some supporters of the ruling in the Northern part of Lome broke into wild jubilation, dancing, singing and merrymaking. Out of the 3,277492 registered voters, 2,119829 went to the polls representing 64.68 per cent of valid votes.
In a short speech, the Electoral Commissioner, Issifou Tabiou Taffa, on Saturday congratulated all the presidential candidates for their conduct during the whole electoral process.
He said that the road to democracy was long and tedious exercise which needed to be sustained for progress and national development. �I will like to congratulate the chairman of all the district local electoral commissions and their members for the efficiency that characterized the compilation process, Mr. Taffa said.
He disclosed that the results declared would be dispatched within eight days with the relevant documentation to the Constitutional court for the relevant petitions to be addressed. Meanwhile, two international observer missions have described the Togo elections as reasonably peaceful, calm, free and fair.
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