In lieu of the recently concluded general elections in Kenya, the Kenyan Supreme Court has unanimously rejected all the challenges that had been posited against the official results of the presidential election thereby upholding the Deputy President William Ruto’s win.
Opposition candidate, Raila Odinga had openly alleged some irregularities in the otherwise peaceful August 9 election that had been marked by the last-minute drama when the electoral commission split and traded accusations of misconduct.
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The court found little or no evidence for the various claims and called some “nothing more than hot air.”
The court had also in the previous election in 2017 overturned the results of the presidential election, a first in Africa, and ordered a fresh vote after Odinga filed a challenge. He then boycotted that new election but this time, Odinga had been backed by former rival and outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta in the latest example of shifting political alliances in East Africa’s most stable democracy.
It had been reported that Kenya’s Supreme Court will on Monday (today) whether to uphold or nullify the result of last month’s presidential election, a ruling that is anxiously awaited in the East African country that is scarred by previous bouts of poll-related violence.
The seven-member court are expected to rule following three days of oral arguments last week by lawyers representing the two main candidates and rival camps of election commissioners.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga, making his fifth presidential bid, says Deputy President William Ruto’s narrow win was the product of massive fraud. Four out of seven election commissioners disowned the result announced by the commission chairman, saying the tallying had been opaque.
The Supreme Court made history in the last election in 2017 by annulling President Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory over Odinga because of procedural irregularities.
