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Kenyan opposition figure Raila Odinga said the presidential election results declared by the country’s electoral chairman were “null and void. Deputy President William Ruto was declared the winner only the other day by the election authority. But Odinga termed it as a travesty of justice and a blatant disregard for the constitution and the laws of Kenya
Kenyan opposition figure Raila Odinga said the presidential election results declared by the country’s electoral chairman were “null and void. Deputy President William Ruto was declared the winner only the other day by the election authority. But Odinga termed it as a travesty of justice and a blatant disregard for the constitution and the laws of Kenya. According to the election body’s released data, in the close fight between the two arch-rivals, Ruto was declared as the winner with almost 50.5% of the votes.
At the same time, four of the seven commissioners abruptly announced they couldn’t support the results. Odinga supporters scuffled with the remaining commissioners at the declaration venue. However, the local Elections Observation Group announced that its highly regarded parallel voting tally corroborated the official results.
But Odinga asserted that only the electoral commission chairman could see the final results before the declaration and insisted that decisions by the commission must be taken by consensus. The election commission is yet to comment on the charges of the Odinga. However, reports indicated that a screen streaming cumulative presidential election results stopped while being updated and was later turned off. In another development, the final results could not be accessed on the commission’s website as of now.
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Election forecasts said that Odinga had a slender lead over Ruto after outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta backed him instead of his own deputy president, with whom he fell out years ago. The 77-year-old Odinga has been contesting presidential elections for a long. He can file a complaint with the Supreme Court, which would then have 14 days to make a ruling.
