Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has been declared winner of the country’s Presidential election. He won with 71 percent of the vote.
The Constitutional Council made the announcement on Monday. That means the 85 year old leader will now extend his 36-year rule.
That will make Paul Biya one of the longest serving African leaders when his next term ends. This will be his seventh term in office. He will end his tenure at the age of 92.
During the October 7 election, there was chaos in parts of the country especially the Anglophone regions.
Shortly after the elections, one of the opposition candidates Maurice Kamto declared himself winner of the polls.
But Monday’s declaration showed that he obtained just 14 percent of the vote. Several petitions challenging the credibility of the poll were rejected by the constitutional court.
Biya came into power in 1982 when his predecessor then retired. He became president after serving as prime minister for seven years.
President Biya supervised over the scraping of term limits from the Cameroon constitution in 2008.
Source: Africafeeds.com
