Raila Odinga rejects William Ruto victory

Presidential candidate Raila Odinga called it ” parody » the results announced Monday, May 15 by the chairman of the Kenyan Electoral Commission giving his opponent William Ruto the winner of the presidential election. ” What we saw yesterday (Monday) was a mockery and blatant disregard of Kenya’s constitution said the 77-year-old former prime minister from the capital Nairobi in his first speech since the announcement of the results. ” In our view, there is no winner, no legally and validly declared winner, no president-elect “, he supports during his speech.

Despite the rejection of the results by four of the seven members of the body he heads, the president of the Electoral Commission, Wafula Chebukati affirms that William Ruto won with 50.49% of the vote. The majority of the members of the said Electoral Commission – four out of seven commissioners, including Vice-President Juliana Cherera – who gave their own press conference, say for their part that they cannot “ take responsibility for the results that will be announced “, because of the ” opacity of the process “, while calling on Kenyans to “ calm “.

Shortly before the speech of Raila Odinga in its headquarters in Nairobi, these members spoke again to assure that the tally of results had not been presented to the commission and that it was not mathematically correct.

Raila Odinga says he will continue all legal options possible ways to challenge the results. ” We will pursue all legal and constitutional options available to us. We will do so in view of the many flaws in the elections “. The veteran Kenyan politician also praised his supporters “ for keeping calm and keeping the peace “, calling for “ no one takes the law into their own hands “.