Azimio la Umoja presidential candidate Raila Odinga now claims the 2022 presidential election results announced by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission on Monday are null and void.
The Former Premier while addressing the nation for the first time after the election outcome, accused IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati of leading the commission with dictatorship which according to him is against the Kenyan constitution and law.
He further stated that the results announced by the commission should be quashed by the court of law, adding that there is neither a legally and validly declared winner nor a President-Elect.
At the same time, the four IEBC officials who distanced themselves from the presidential results disclosed their reasons in a press briefing on Tuesday at Serena hotel in Nairobi.
Led by IEBC vice Chair Juliana Cherera, the Commissioners, Francis Wanderi, Justus Nyangaya, and Irene Massit stated that the aggregation of percentages of the results scored by the presidential candidates on the ballot had a mathematical absurdity that defies logic.
They further claimed that the results did not include the total number of registered voters, and votes cast and rejected votes which they say are critical supporting percentages scored by the four candidates in the presidential election.
Further, they say that upon requesting to verify and discuss the final phase of the election process the commission’s chair sidelined them.
The commissioners, therefore, in conclusion, said, due to the failure of a credible and verifiable explanation they ruled out that the process that went into the generation of FORM 34C which Chebukati used to declare the results of the presidential election was opaque and incapable of earning their ownership and confidence.
Kenya Kwanza presidential candidate William Ruto on Monday was declared by the electoral body as the president-elect after he garnered 7,176,141 representing 50.49 percent of the votes cast, while his close rival, Former Premier Raila Odinga, garnered 6,942,930 representing 48 percent of the cast votes.