Benin election officials began counting votes after Sunday’s election for a President, with Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni favourite, having overseen a decade of economic growth despite jihadist attacks in the north.
The Head of the Electoral Commission, Sacca Lafia, said the election had taken place peacefully.
But an electoral monitoring platform set up by civil society groups reported around a hundred incident “alerts” at the polls.
The cases are said to have involved voting stations that had opened early or where voting boxes appeared full before the start of voting.
Nearly eight million voters were eligible to cast ballots to choose a successor to Patrice Talon, who steps down after two five-year terms, having endorsed Wadagni as his successor.
–Channel Africa–
