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Thomas Naadi
BBC News, Dakar
Senegal's opposition candidate A businessman who is a member of a powerful South African family has been linked to the murder of popular rapper AKA.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye has emerged as the winner of Sunday’s election with 54.28% of the total votes, according to official provisional results released by the electoral commission on Wednesday. AKA, real name Kiernan Forbes, and his close friend, Tibz Motsoane, were gunned down outside a restaurant in Durban on 10 February last year.
Presidential candidates have until the end of Thursday to file appeals challenging Mr Faye's win, failure to which the Constitutional Council will confirm him as the president-elect. A statement presented to court by the investigating officer said that a company owned by businessman Sydney Mfundo Gcaba allegedly sent over 800,000 rand ($42,000; £33,000) to the bank account of one of the suspects currently on trial over the rapper's killing.
Mr Faye's main challenger, former Prime Minister Amadou Ba of the ruling The payment was allegedly made a day after AKA's murder.
coalition, secured 35.79% of total votes. The prosecutor, citing phone records, also said that the suspect who received the money, Mziwethemba Harvey Gwabeni, allegedly made a call to Mr Gcaba before the transaction was completed.
The election recorded a voter Mr Gcaba is yet to comment on the prosecutor's statement.
turnout of 61%. The prosecutor alleges that the money was then split equally between the seven suspects.
Mr Ba, along with several of the other 15 presidential contestants, have already conceded and congratulated Mr Faye. It is considered unlikely that they will appeal against the results. Mr Gwabeni said in an affidavit that he received the funds as payment for consultation services he provided to the company.
Outgoing President Macky Sall had attempted to delay the polls But the prosecutor argued that there's no evidence showing that Mr Gwabeni provided any services to the company to warrant the payment.
initially scheduled for February, which sparked violent protests and resulted Mr Gcaba is a member of the powerful Gcaba family, which owns a taxi empire and several other businesses in the coastal KwaZulu-Natal province and across South Africa.
in three deaths. A motive for his alleged involvement in AKA's murder is yet to be established.
Mr Faye has said he will rule Senegal with humility and fight
corruption.
He has also promised to put measures in place to address youth unemployment
and the high cost of living.
Expectations remain high for Africa's youngest democratically elected president.
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