Kenya to have re-run of presidential poll: Supreme Court annuls Uhuru Kenyatta election victory

September 1, 2017 BBC 21 Comments

Kenya’s Supreme Court has annulled the result of the last month’s presidential election.

Uhuru Kenyatta won a second term as president with 54% of the vote but the result has now been annulled.
Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters
Odinga waves to supporters as he leaves the supreme court.
Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP
Odinga’s supporters celebrate in Kibera.
Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

Citing irregularities, Chief Justice David Maraga said a new vote should be held within 60 days.

The election commission had declared incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta the winner of the election by a margin of 1.4 million votes.

But the opposition argued that the commission’s IT system had been hacked to manipulate the results.

The BBC’s Caroline Karobia in Nairobi says Kenya has made history as the first country in Africa to annul presidential election.

Reading the ruling – reached by a majority of four to two among the judges – Justice Maraga said the 8 August poll had not been “conducted in accordance with the Constitution”.

After the announcement, opposition supporters were seen celebrating outside the court building, as well as in opposition strongholds—

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