Julius Bio re-elected as Sierra Leone’s president

The Sierra Leonean President, Julius Bio, has been declared the winner of last Saturday’s election in the West African country.

He polled 56 percent of the vote cast to defeat his challenger, Samura Kamara, who gathered 41 percent of the vote in the exercise.

The head of the country’s electoral commission, Mohamed Kenewui Konneh, announced the results on Tuesday evening in Freetown.

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“By the powers invested in me, I hereby certify that Bio Julius Maada is duly elected president,” Konneh said.

The opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) had in a statement disputed the election results and accused the electoral commission of fraud in the conduct of the exercise.

The party alleged over-voting in some areas and declared that It would not accept “fake and cooked up results.”

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