{"id":1202,"date":"2017-10-30T18:07:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T18:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2017-10-30T18:08:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T18:08:06","slug":"kenyatta-as-re-elected-as-kenya-president-with-98-of-vote-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/kenyatta-as-re-elected-as-kenya-president-with-98-of-vote-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyatta re-elected as Kenya President with 98 % of vote &#8211; Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_dvtopStory\" class=\"story\">\n<p>Oct 30 2017<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kenyan President Kenyatta re-elected with 98 % of vote - Commission\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailytrust.com.ng\/cms\/gall_content\/2017\/10\/2017_10$largeimg30_Oct_2017_190036301.jpg\" alt=\"Kenyan President Kenyatta re-elected with 98 % of vote - Commission\" \/><br \/>\nKenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_dvbtmStory\" class=\"fleft\">\n<p>Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta won the Thursday repeat presidential election with slightly more than 98 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<p>The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman, Wafula Chebukati made this known on Monday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"responsive slider toSlickSlider2 slick-initialized slick-slider\">\n<div class=\"slick-list draggable\">\n<div class=\"slick-track\" role=\"listbox\">\n<div class=\"slick-slide slick-current slick-active\" role=\"option\">Chebukati said that the repeat presidential poll was free, fair.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He said that the turnout for the vote, which was boycotted by opposition leader Raila Odinga, was just under 39 percent of the 19.6 million registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m satisfied that we were able to meet these conditions that have enabled the commission to deliver \u2026 a free, fair and credible election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>NAN reports that earlier, riot police fired teargas at opposition supporters in a slum in Kenya\u2019s capital on Monday, as the country awaited official confirmation of a landslide win for incumbent Kenyatta in re-run elections.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the main opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, have already branded the election a farce \u2013 he\u00a0boycotted last week\u2019s vote which was held after the Supreme Court annulled the original August poll citing\u00a0procedural irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters gathered in Nairobi\u2019s Kawangware slum, trying to block a visit from Interior Minister Fred Matiang\u2018i, witnesses said, hours before the expected announcement of the results at 3.30 pm (1230 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow people are fighting with the police and they (the police) are using teargas,\u201d resident Vitalis Aloyi said\u00a0by phone.<\/p>\n<p>In the slum of Mathare, the scene of deadly clashes between police and protesters immediately after the August\u00a0poll, social worker Ann Mbuthia, 58, said women were hurrying home before the results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are afraid because here in Mathare youth are ready to fight if Uhuru is announced (the winner),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen are afraid to come out the houses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some Kenyans fear that the political violence, which has mostly been protesters clashing with police, is\u00a0beginning to take on ethnic overtones after two deaths in clashes between rival groups at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the U.S. ambassador said Washington was \u201cprofoundly concerned\u201d by the outbreaks of violence since the\u00a0Oct. 26 vote.<\/p>\n<p>Results from 266 out of 291 constituencies displayed at the national tallying center showed Kenyatta winning 98 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The electoral commission said 7,616,217 valid votes were cast, representing a turnout of 42.36 percent in areas\u00a0where polls opened.<\/p>\n<p>Protests by Odinga\u2019s supporters prevented polling stations from opening in 25 constituencies. If those\u00a0constituencies are included, turnout dropped to 38.84 percent of 19,611,423 registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>The election commission said that poor security prevented them from holding the vote in those areas, but that\u00a0since it would not \u201cmaterially affect\u201d the result, the final announcement could go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Odinga pulled out of the vote, saying the election commission had failed to institute reforms to prevent the\u00a0kind of \u201cillegalities and irregularities\u201d that scuppered Kenyatta\u2019s win in the August vote.<\/p>\n<p>Kura Yangu Sauti Yangu, a coalition of civil society organisations with 2,000 election observers, said in a\u00a0report there were \u201cmultiple\u201d cases where results from polling stations differed from results on the forms posted\u00a0on the election portal after vote.<\/p>\n<p>They supplied a photo taken by their observers of the tally sheet for Bashaal market center in Garissa.<\/p>\n<p>It showed 133 votes for Kenyatta while the form displayed online showed 433 votes.<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters\/NAN)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 30 2017 Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta won the Thursday repeat presidential election with slightly more than 98 percent of the vote. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman, Wafula Chebukati made this known on Monday. Chebukati said that the repeat presidential poll was free, fair. 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