What The 2025 Presidential Election In Gabon, Like That Of Senegal Last Year, Has Proven

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The Official Result Of A Presidential Election Can Be Known Within 24 Hours After The Polls Closed, In Francophone Africa

All Depends On The Government

Many people hailed the transparent manner in which the 2025 presidential election was conducted in neighbouring Gabon, precisely what happened on the voting day which was June 12.  The voting and the vote counting exercise were all transparent. At the end of the vote count at each polling station, the PVs were posted for all to see at the polling stations. That was another show of transparency.

Later that night, the trend of the result of the presidential election was officially announced by Gabon’s Minister of Interior and Security. The trend showed that Brigadier General Brice Clotaire Oigui Nguema, the President of the Transitional Government, had inflicted a crushing defeat on the seven other so –called presidential candidates, by recording a 90.35 % score in the vote count.  However as seen with the reports of western media, this type of score in presidential elections is qualified in the West as the Soviet –style score, because such a score at presidential election was only common in the Soviet Union, and continues today in Russia. It is in fact rare of even impossible in democratic countries across the world today, to find a candidate in a presidential election grab up to 90 % of the votes, especially when there are many candidates.

Whatever the case, what attracted the attention of many Cameroonians was not the scores of the candidates as contained in the tentative result of the elections, but rather the transparency that reigned at the polling stations in Gabon on June 12, 2025, and above all the fact that the result of the election, or better still the trend, was officially announced less than 24 hours after polls closed across the country. The Constitutional Court in Gabon is still to officially announce the final result of the presidential election, but that will however be more of a formality.

Senegal And Gabon

What happened in neighbouring Gabon as regard the official declaration of the result of the June 12, 2025 Presidential Election, just like what happened in Senegal early last year, have shown that it is possible in Francophone Africa for the results of presidential elections to be officially made known to the public by the authorities in charge of elections in the different countries, less than 24 hours after the polls closed or after voting ends. But it however depends on the government of each country.

In Cameroon unfortunately, the CPDM Government prohibits the publication of the result trend of the presidential election. In fact after a presidential election in Cameroon, it will take at least two long weeks for the official result to be announced. All these, just because agents of the regime have to work to falsify at all cost, the result of the election in favour of the incumbent or the candidate of the ruling CPDM.

Vote Counting Commissions

In Cameroon, the CPRM Government has created a number of questionable vote counting commissions that take over, after the real vote counting exercise at the polling stations in the polling agents, representatives of Elections Cameroon, and closely observed by the population. This is how the statistics on PVs from polling stations are falsified along the line by the CPDM and its accomplice, Elections Cameroon.   By the time the national vote counting commission ends its work, the result of the election at that sage, is often different with the figures that the polling agents of the different candidates as well as ELECAM representatives at the different polling stations, signed at the end of the vote counting exercise after voting ended.

This fraud in favour of the candidate of the ruling CPDM  in the election, is facilitated by a controversial article that the CPDM Government or regime has insisted to maintain in the Electoral Code, which states that when there is a dispute as regard the statistics on the PV of a polling station, it is  Elections Cameroon’s copy of the PV that is taken by the vote counting commission. And of course, the information on the copy of ELECAM PVs, always contain the statistics or type of information that favours the CPDM, or what the CPDM wants.

ELECAM was created by the Government, and its members are all appointed by the President of the Republic, Paul Biya, who is also the National President of the ruling CPDM Party. ELECAM this has no real independence, and operates more like an organ of the ruling party.

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