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WATCH: Namibia opposition has a responsibility from sponsors to challenge the results
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Namibia's main opposition party has said it will not recognise results from this week's general election, where there have been logistical problems and voting was extended in several places.
In a statement on Saturday, Panduleni Itula, the presidential candidate for the opposition Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) alleged there had been "glaring and undeniable" electoral malpractices.
Itula said, win or lose, "he has a responsibility from his sponsors to challenge" the results.
He had been aiming to defeat the candidate for the South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo), which has been in power since independence in 1990.
Swapo's flagbearer, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, is seeking to become the country's first female president.
"We shall not, under any circumstances, recognise the outcome of the 2024 election… that is still, in our opinion, illegitimately continuing," Itula told a press conference on Saturday, while calling for calm.
The IPC has said it will "pursue justice through the courts" and has encouraged people who felt that they had been unable to vote because of mismanagement by the electoral commission to go to the police to make a statement.
In a statement on Saturday, Panduleni Itula, the presidential candidate for the opposition Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) alleged there had been "glaring and undeniable" electoral malpractices.
Itula said, win or lose, "he has a responsibility from his sponsors to challenge" the results.
He had been aiming to defeat the candidate for the South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo), which has been in power since independence in 1990.
"We shall not, under any circumstances, recognise the outcome of the 2024 election… that is still, in our opinion, illegitimately continuing," Itula told a press conference on Saturday, while calling for calm.
The IPC has said it will "pursue justice through the courts" and has encouraged people who felt that they had been unable to vote because of mismanagement by the electoral commission to go to the police to make a statement.
A SLIP OF THE TONGUE: Namibia's
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Dr. Panduleni Itula, leader of Independent Patriots for Change (IPC); says, win or lose, "he has a responsibility from his sponsors to challenge" the results.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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