Togo vote sees low turnout as president seeks third term Togo's presidential election on Saturday sees a low turnout, likely boosting President Faure Gnassingbe chances of winning a third term and extending his family's grip on power into a second half-century. Paul Amegakpo, executive director of the National Consultation of Civil Society, says the elections were carried out in a "peaceful way" but added that there was a "high rate of abstention". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES