The official results claimed that Samia Suluhu Hassan won 98% of the vote, an impossible figure in any democratic society, and even more absurd given the events on election day.
Documented irregularities
- Polling stations shut down early or never opened
- Ballot boxes stolen by security forces
- Citizens beaten, threatened, or blocked from voting
- Electricity and internet deliberately cut nationwide during counting
- Fake tallies produced without observers, transparency, or verification
- 32 million votes supposedly tabulated without power or connectivity
Election fraud is not just a political problem, it is what enabled the killings that followed. The blackout was used to hide state violence.
Today, the government uses the fake 98% mandate to justify even more repression.