"I would say to the population of our country, to the Congolese people ... that they should remain calm and wait for the publication of official results by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI)," Kabila said on Wednesday.
Result rejected
Kabila said the police and army were loyal to him as president, suggesting security forces would not tolerate clashes with Bemba's supporters.
Thousands voted in DR Congo's first
election for more than 40 years
The October 29 vote was the culmination of a peace process to end Congo 's 1998-2003 war, in which Bemba led a rebel faction before joining a power-sharing government.
It is DR Congo's first full election in more than 40 years.
But the vice-president's Union for the Nation coalition has already rejected the results. It alleges "systematic cheating" in the vote count and has questioned the credibility of the electoral commission.
It said on Tuesday that data collected by its own observers at polling stations showed Bemba led the election with 52.5 per cent of the vote.
The coalition said in a statement on Tuesday: "The Union for the Nation will not accept an electoral holdup that aims to steal the victory from the Congolese people."
Violence feared
Kabila dismissed Bemba's complaints, saying: "This is nothing but agitation by politicians who either know they have lost the elections or don't even know what is going on because they have not been following the process."
Bemba's rejection of the results has stoked fears of further violence, but the city's streets were calm on Wednesday.
Soldiers loyal to the two candidates fought bloody street battles in August which killed at least 30 people after the first-round results were announced.
Four more were killed last Saturday when the two sides clashed once again.
A 17,500-strong UN force and a special European Union contingent have stepped up patrols in the country to head off any unrest.
President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, when meeting with United States Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz at the Pentagon in 2003.
Incumbent President Joseph Kabila has been declared the winner of the 2006 Presidential elections by the Independent Electoral Commission of the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

Chairperson of the electoral commission, Apollinaire Malu Malu, announced that Kabila polled 58 percent of the vote to his rival Jean-Pierre Bemba's 42 percent, in the run-off vote held on October 29. 

Kabila has called for calm following the announcement by the election commission. 

Bemba has released a statement saying he does not accept the declared election result. Bemba and his supporters have previously disputed the provisional results announced by the commission. 

Kabila is the world's youngest head of state, getting the title as leader of Congo in 2001, after his father, Laurent-Desiré Kabila was assassinated in 2001. 

Election officials have rejected claims of fraud. International observers monitoring the polls have said that despite some problems, the polling was largely free and fair. 

Kinshasa is tense amidst fears that violence between the two leaders' armed supporters may break out. The U.N. peacekeeping force has stepped up security, deploying tanks on the streets of the capital.