The Democratic Republic of Congo’s elections body, CENI, announced that preliminary results from the December 30, 2018 polls could be delayed beyond Sunday.
According to the body, the first batch of results will be released on January 6, 2019 – a week after the historic elections took place across the country, except for three cities.
Corneille Nangaa met top aspirants in the presidential race on Wednesday evening in the capital Kinshasa under the auspices of the African Union.
Sources close to the CENI say that as at Wednesday, only 17% of tally sheets had been received from the vote counting centres across the country.
CENI did not give a date by which they would have gotten enough results to put out a preliminary result. Congolese are anxiously waiting for results in elections meant to pick a successor to outgoing Joseph Kabila.