Kenya’s opposition on Thursday
demanded that veteran leader Raila Odinga be declared winner of the
presidential election, even though official counting of the ballots
gives incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta a commanding lead.
Musalia Mudavadi, a senior official in
the opposition coalition, told reporters that information from
“confidential sources” at the election commission showed Odinga
had secured victory by just under 300,000 votes, but provided no
evidence.
Minutes later, hundreds of Odinga
supporters, mainly young men, poured onto the streets of the
opposition stronghold of Kisumu in celebration.
A Reuters witness said at least one
truck of anti-riot police followed them.
NAN reports that Odinga said most of
more than 20,000 polling station result forms uploaded to the
election commission’s website were fake, doubling down on previous
claims of “massive” fraud in Tuesday’s presidential election.
Odinga told Reuters that most of the
forms he considered fake had been filled out by agents working out of
a Nairobi hotel.
He provided no proof for his claim.
The official election results give
President Uhuru Kenyatta a commanding lead with only a handful of
polling stations still to report.
International observers on Thursday
praised the handling of the election and the European Union mission
said it had seen no sign of manipulation.
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