Togo's President Wins Reelection

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Togo's President Wins Reelection

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Togo's President Gnassingbe Eyadema, Africa's longest serving leader, has won another five-year term in office, according to official results of the June 1 election released in Lome Wednesday by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The electoral commission said Eyadema took 57.2 percent of votes in Sunday's poll.

Eyadema's closest rival, the opposition Union of Forces for Change (UFC) party candidate Emmanuel Bob Akitani, obtained 34.14 percent.

The UFC had fielded Akitani as its candidate after the party's leader, Gilchrist Olympio, was barred from taking part in the election.

Olympio was seen as the only candidate capable of posing a threat to Eyadema in the presidential contest.

Eyadema led what was postcolonial Africa's first coup, in 1963.He took power four years later.

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