Bio, 59, returns for a second term at the helm of the West African nation, which has been pummelled by multiple challenges since the end of a 1991-2002 civil war, including an Ebola epidemic and now a crippling economic crisis.
The electoral commission announced he had won 56% of the vote, while his main challenger Samura Kamara came second with 41%.
“I categorically reject the outcome so announced by the electoral commission,” he said on Twitter.
Vote tallying had already been disputed by Kamara’s All People’s Congress (APC), which condemned in a statement Monday an alleged lack of inclusiveness, transparency and responsibility by the electoral commission.
The party pointed to the lack of information about which polling stations or districts the ballots were coming from.
It had said it “will not accept these fake and cooked up results“.
In a later statement, the party alleged
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