Kenya opposition leader says presidential election result ‘null’

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga dismissed as “null and void” the result of an August 9 presidential election in which he was declared defeated, adding on Tuesday that Kenya’s democracy faces a long-running legal crisis. .

Your first comments on the resultof came soon inthen what four ofThe seven election commissioners said what kept their insplit of Last day in deny the resultof gives election presidentincial, it saysinof what the process in final count was “opaque”.

“Our opinion is what the numbers announcesofs for (the presidentinnt gives Wafula electoral commission) Chebukati are nullif ineffective and need to be canceledofonly by the court,” said Odinga, what it’s on its fifth candigivesture to the Presidency at a press conference.

“O what we saw yesterday was a hoax,” he said. “What let no one take the law into his own hands.”

Chebukati inclarified the current vice presidentinnte William Ruto winsofr on mondaygivesMonday with 50.49% ofs votes against 48.5% in Odinga. Minutes earlier, her deputy, Juliana Cherera, had told the media at another location what she and three other commissioners repudiated the resultsofs.

speechof to the group on Tuesday, Cherera said what the resultsofs what inram Ruto a minor win were wrongly addedofChebukati was accused in ignore your questions in the final count. she stated what the elections were conductedgivess in way toinWedgives.

Chebukati and the four dissi commissionersinwe don’t answerinram to the askedofs in comments gives Reuters.

Odinga broadcast the press conference ofthe members saidinbefore gives commission at your own event before in take the stage.

In his speech, he asked his supportersofres what keep the peace and do not take justice into your own hands.

the dramatic events in mondaygivesthursday raised fears in violence as observedgives after the previous elections in Kenyausually a ofthe most stable countries gives Africa, and Odinga faced askedofs at home and abroad to commit to resolving whichwhatr disputes in the courts.

In 2017, more in one hundred people were killed inthen what the Supreme Court tonullu resultof citanof anomalies in the process in vote. a decadegives before, more in 1,200 people died in widespread violencegives after the presidential voteincial in 2007.

In a crowded restaurantof in the cigivesin in Kisumu, in the west of country, a stronghold in Odinga, there was sporadic applause whenof he rejected the resultsofs in yesterday on live television.

in the immense favela in Kibera, in Nairobi, and in Kisumu, onin the majority ofvoters are also in favor in Odinga, silence returned to the streets inthen what the protesters confronted the police and whatinflated tires overnight.