Togo president wins re-election

Published: 8:00AM GMT 07 March 2010

The Togolese president, Faure Gnassingbe, right, with the Ghanaian president, John Atta Mills Photo: AFP/PIUS UTOMI EKPEI

Faure Gnassingbe, the son of a late dictator, kick the antithesis personality Jean-Pierre Fabre, the choosing commission said.

He won 1.2 million votes out of dual million cast, according to officials, whilst Fabre won only 692,584.

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But Mr Fabre claimed feat in the election, and indicted the opinion of being "illegal".

He purported irregularities in the vote-counting complement and pronounced that "everything the electoral commission is you do is false".

It came after Jean-Claude Codjo, a part of of Togo"s electoral agency, walked out of a assembly in criticism at what he called a "lack of transparency".

Mr Gnassingbe"s win is subject to and contingency be authorized by Togo"s inherent justice and the antithesis Union Forces for Change (UFC) is expected to plea the results.

Riot troops were deployed on the streets of Lome as the outcome was voiced after troops had used rip gas to sunder a little 200 antithesis supporters.

Mr Gnassingbe was put in energy by the troops on the genocide of his father Eyadema early in 2005 after 38 years in office.

After drawn out general condemnation, the son stood down and called elections that he won dual months later. The antithesis pronounced the opinion had been rigged.