However, President Suluhu Hassan did not out-rightly apologise for the reported 10,000 unarmed civilians killed by the police and military during the post-election violence. The president did not address concerns that the civilians shot dead security forces were buried in mass graves.

Simon Byabakama, chairperson of the Electoral Commission, said he had been warned by senior government figures not to declare certain candidates winners, although he did not name those involved. He was reacting to a video circulating widely online in which a presidential aide suggested the commission would never announce opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, known as Bobi Wine, as president even if he won the election.