Angola’s chief opposition party says it has filed a legal suit in the country’s constitutional court in protest of the just concluded presidential elections. He is seeking annulment of the elections.

The presidential candidate Adalberto Costa Junior has contested the winning of President Joao Lourenco, 68 for his second term in office and also extending a fifty-year uninterrupted rule of one party.

The presidential aspirant Adalberto Costa Junior moved to court after the refusal of the election commission refused to address his complaints. He has cited illegalities on the part of the election commission. The commission however maintains that it has conducted the election process fairly and transparently.

However, four out of the 16 election commissioners did not sign off the final tally raising questions about the legitimacy of the process.

He also alleges that there are discrepancies between the commission’s count and the party’s own tally.

Joao Lourenco secured 51.17% of the total votes cast, making him the poll winner. Adalberto Costa Junior on the other hand acquired 43.95% of the total votes.

He said he does not recognize the final results of the August 24th elections in Angola.

He stated that he expects the constitutional court to undertake its mandate diligently and compare its vote against the party’s tally of votes.

“The MPLA did not win the election … we have been in peace for 20 years, and we now need to embrace a true democratic rule of law,” Costa Junior through a Facebook post.

Since the nation adopted multi-partyism, the August 24th election is on record as the most tightly contested race between the two presidential aspirants.

Adalberto Costa vied on a National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) ticket where he is the party leader.

UNITA is a former rebel movement that wrestled and challenged the former MPLA government that left office in 2002 after a whooping twenty-seven years in office.

President Joao Lourenco won on a Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) party ticket.

The voter turnout was dismal amounting to about 45% of the total registered voters.