Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has been declared winner of the October 26 repeat presidential election, boycotted by the opposition led by Rail Odinga, winning by 98 percent of total votes cast.
On Monday the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Wafula Chebukati announced the results of the election meaning President Kenyatta has been re-elected to serve a second term.
Chebukati’s declaration could mean that results from 25 constituencies where voting could not take place would not be relevant.
IEBC Vice-Chairperson Consolata Nkatha has already said that results from these constituencies will not affect the final result.
The Supreme Court of Kenya, on September 1, ordered fresh poll after annulling the August 8 results over illegalities and irregularities on the part of IEBC.
“I’m satisfied that we were able to meet these conditions that have enabled the commission to deliver … a free, fair and credible election,” Wafula Chebukati, chairman of the commission, said.
Mr Odinga’s decision to boycott the repeat poll affected the turn out with his supporters heeding to his advice not to participate.
Protests from the opposition party supporters led to some deaths and clashes with police.
The commission has said that it has verified results from 259 of the 265 constituencies where voting took place on October 26.
The IEBC said 7,447,014 people voted in the repeat poll characterized by violence in some opposition strongholds, which represented a turn-out of 43.04 per cent.
Daily Nation reported that of out of the 266 constituencies reported, President Kenyatta had 7,483, 895 votes, just 719,395 shy of the 8,203, 290 he had in the annulled poll.
All the other candidates had below 100,000 votes.
Source: Africafeeds.com
