Coup leader Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema secured a landslide victory in Gabon's presidential election, the African nation's electoral commission announced on Sunday.
The 50-year-old general secured 90.35% of votes cast, defeating seven other candidates, including immediate past Prime Minister Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze.
He came in a distant second with 3% of votes cast, Interior Minister Hermann Immongault said as he announced the provisional results with some vote counts still to be confirmed.
The Interior Ministry announced a turnout of 87.21% in the election in which some 920,000 voters, including over 28,000 overseas, were registered to participate across more than 3,000 polling stations.
Race favourite Olga Nguema acted as Gabon’s interim president since staging a coup in 2023 that saw the end of the Bongo dynasty, who ruled the country for more than 50 years.
The Bongo family was widely seen as having profited off of the country’s oil wealth at the expense of the population, many of whom live in poverty.
(AP)
