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Tanzanian leader says Sunday polls will be peaceful

Xinhua, October 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

With only one day before 22.7 million Tanzanians go to polls on Sunday, the east African nation's President Jakaya Kikwete said on Friday the elections will be peaceful and calm.

Kikwete made the assurance when he held talks with the heads of two observer missions in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.

On Sunday, Tanzanians voters will elect a new president as Kikwete is ending his two five-year terms.

"I believe that this year's elections will be held in a peaceful environment than the previous elections because campaigns were conducted very peaceful," he told the head of the African Union observer mission former Mozambican President Armando Guebuza and the head of the Commonwealth observer mission former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.

Kikwete said the government and its organs will make sure that it will fulfill its responsibility of protecting people and their property.

Jonathan told Kikwete that his team was comprised of political experts, journalists, youths as well as people with massive election knowledge.

The presidential candidate for the ruling party-Chama Cha Mapinduzi, John Magufuli, is facing fierce competition from Edward Lowassa who is contesting on the ticket on leading opposition party-Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA).

CHADEMA is campaigning on a coalition of three other opposition parties of Civic United Front (CUF), National League for Democracy and NCCR-Mageuzi. Endit