NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s electoral fee chairman has declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the shut presidential election over five-time contender Raila Odinga, a triumph for the person who shook up politics by interesting to struggling Kenyans on financial phrases and never on conventional ethnic ones.
However chaos emerged simply earlier than the declaration when the electoral fee’s vice chair and three different commissioners instructed journalists they may not help the “opaque nature” of the ultimate part. “We can not take possession of the outcome that’s going to be introduced,” vice chair Juliana Cherera mentioned. On the declaration venue, police surged to impose calm amid shouting.
The sudden break up within the fee got here minutes after Odinga’s chief agent mentioned they may not confirm the outcomes and made allegations of “electoral offenses” with out giving particulars or proof. Odinga didn’t come to the venue for the declaration.
Now Kenyans wait to see whether or not Odinga will once more go to court docket to contest the outcomes of Tuesday’s peaceable election in a rustic essential to regional stability. That is probably the ultimate attempt for the 77-year-old longtime opposition determine backed this time by former rival and outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta, who fell out along with his deputy, Ruto, years in the past.
