Nairobi
After the stormy announcement of the results the previous evening, Raila Odinga broke his silence at a press conference on Tuesday, declaring
“there was no winner or elected president”
in the presidential election of the August 9.
During his speech, the 77-year-old candidate, dubbed by outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta, contented himself with reading a text of a few pages without answering questions from journalists.
He accused the president of the electoral commission, Wafula Chebukati, of breaking the law by announcing the results alone, without allowing the other commissioners to see them.
Odinga then concluded that his party, Azimio, would
“explore all legal and constitutional options available to it”
to challenge the result.
This declaration opens the way to an appeal to the courts, which this veteran of Kenyan political life is accustomed to.
Odinga has indeed already been an unsuccessful candidate four times in the presidential election, refusing…
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