The newly re-elected President Idriss Déby has been reported dead.
The development is coming 24-hour after he was re-elected for his sixth term in office.
Confirming the report, the national army of Chad read on national radio that the newly re-elected President Idriss Déby has died of wounds he received while commanding his army in battles against insurgents in the North.
Recall that the Chadian president led an onslaught against the dreaded Boko Haram and dislodged the insurgents between Chad and Nigerian border.
The Africa Report noted that had won a sixth term in the latest provisional results in on Monday by 79.3%, but an announcement broadcast on the country’s national radio today has announced his death.
The army spokesperson, Général Azem Bemrandoua Agouna was quoted as saying that the military had been pushed back by a column of insurgents who were advancing on the capital, N’Djamena.
The late president was expected to give a victory speech after receiving the provisional results, but opted instead to visit Chadian soldiers on the front lines, said his campaign director Mahamat Zen Bada.
Another source also stated that the soldiers were attacked by militants from the Front pour l’Alternance et la Concorde au Tchad (FACT) (Front for Change and Concord in Chad) who had arrived from their base in Libya and had entered Chadian soil on 11 April.
Their main goal was to rid the country of Déby’s 31 years of power.
