Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, led the early results of a poll on Tuesday.
The result on the poll is expected to return the post-genocide president for another term with a landslide. The supporters of Kagame went to the main football field of Kigali and celebrated the lead of Kagame together with fireworks and reggae music after the presidential election on Monday.
According to Chrysologue Karangwa, poll chief of Rwanda, Kagame won 92.9 percent on the votes that are reported. The results came from the 11 out of the 30 districts of Rwanda. The maximum score of his challenger was 4.9 percent, which is clocked by Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo of the Social Democratic Party (PSD).
The two candidates gained 1.5 and 0.7 percent, respectively. Kagame was very happy and he thanked the crowd for supporting. He said that he is very happy and thankful that the people made the right choice. He was already claiming his victory because of the result.
According to Kagame, he will continue working for the government and he will always set the country first before anything else. He said that it is the victory of the country and it is the victory of the Rwandan people. Before the celebration, officials announced that Kagame won with 96.7 percent of all the votes of the Rwandan people who are living abroad. The announcement sent the crowd and the supporters of Kagame in frenzy.
One of the singers from the stage in the main football stadium of Kigali said that it feels like victory. Singers hymn the anthem “Victory” which is made from the 2003 win of Kagame where he obtained almost 95 percent of all the casted votes.
Kagame said that the voting is very democratic. He said that the people of Rwanda are free to stand for election.


