The United States noted that there were serious doubts about the credibility of Tanzania’s presidential election.
This comes after the main opposition candidate urged the country not to recognize the results terming it “fraud”.
The US Embassy in Tanzania said there had been “credible allegations of significant election-related fraud and intimidation” in the just concluded polls.
The elections were marred by allegations of arrests of candidates and protestors, multiple voting, pre-ticking of the ballot, restrictions on agents of political parties to access polling stations, and widespread locking of social media
Elections took place simultaneously both in Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Tundu Lissu, the main challenger to incumbent President John Magufuli told Reuters that the elections could not be trusted.
Preliminary results announced by the electoral commission show that Magufuli is leading against his competitors.
“The results should not be recognized by any country in the world, should not be recognized by the African Union and the Commonwealth,” Lissu told Reuters.
Lissu urged the world to take action against who took part in “this travesty”.
In Zanzibar, the CCM presidential candidate, Hussein Mwinyi was declared the winner after garnering 76 percent of the vote, the Zanzibar Electoral Commission announced.
