Western observers bashed over DRC polls

influence the election outcome in his country.
Mr Mwana Nanga said in an interview on Tuesday that the Western election observers were not sincere when making accusations that the election was rigged.
He said they were causing confusion in the DRC.
“There were two types of foreign observers – the African observers and the Western observers,” he said.
“The African observers had lots of confidence in the DRC situation and they were happy with it, but the Western observers were looking for trouble.
“They even said we could not hold elections and asked us to postpone them. This was before we had done anything.”
Mr Mwana Nanga said the western election observers never trusted that the DRC government could organise successful elections.
“At the end of the day, we did it and it was also successful,” he said.
“Those who were honest said the election was done by the book,” he said.
President Joseph Kabila has conceded that mistakes had been made in the elections, but rejected criticism by monitors that the results lacked credibility.
President Kabila took nearly 49 percent of the votes to opposition leader Mr Etienne Tshisekedi’s roughly 32 percent in results announced by the electoral commission last Friday.
One of the foreign observers, the Carter Centre, led by former United States President Jimmy Carter insists that the results lacked credibility.