Null and void

2022 - 8 - 16

final presidential results 2022 - raila rejects results

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Defeated Kenyan candidate declares presidential election results ... (The Washington Post)

NAIROBI — Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga declared the results of the election “null and void” and promised to challenge them in court, ...

In Kibera, a slum in Nairobi that is considered a stronghold for Odinga, crowds that had in previous days gathered to watch live broadcasts ahead of the results had dispersed. “The announcement was disappointing; whatever Odinga says is what we will do, he is our leader. “The issue that we have is with the process,” commissioner Justus Nyang’aya said shortly before Odinga’s news conference. This is expected to be Odinga’s last attempt at the presidency. “I want to commend our supporters for remaining calm and keeping the peace and urge them to continue to do so. Minutes before the results were announced, four out of seven of Kenya’s electoral commissioners said they would not stand by them.

Odinga: Kenya Election Results are 'Null and Void' (Voice of America)

Former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga has rejected official results that show him losing last week's presidential election.

The 0.01 percent translates to approximately 142,000 votes which will make a significant difference in the final results," Cherera said. “I want to commend our supporters for remaining calm and keeping the peace and urge them to continue to do so. "You’ve been there even at Bomas and the screens were supposed to show accumulative numbers of the presidential candidates’ votes as the garnered, as we continued to read the results, the same was not displayed to the public. Raila Odinga cited a split in the electoral commission and the chairman’s failure to explain how he came up with the final numbers. The same, the commissioners were not aware.” Mr. Chebukati's announcement purporting to announce a winner is a nullity.”

Defeated Odinga says Kenyan election result 'null and void' (Aljazeera.com)

Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga says he will pursue legal and constitutional options to contest results.

“We have a robust and more independent judiciary. Dozens of people were killed by police in post-poll protests. She said the elections had been conducted properly. [William Ruto](/features/2022/8/16/now-that-ruto-is-kenyas-president-elect-what-happens-next) the winner on Monday with [50.49 percent](/news/2022/8/15/kenya-elections-2022-results-by-the-numbers) of the vote against Odinga’s 48.5 percent. “What we saw yesterday (Monday) was a travesty and a blatant disregard of the constitution and the laws of Kenya,” he said. Kenya’s defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga has rejected as “null and void” the result of the August 9 election and said that Kenya’s democracy faces a long legal crisis.

Kenya opposition leader rejects election result as 'null and void' (The Guardian)

Raila Odinga's comments on poll he was declared to have lost come after some officials disown final tally.

Observers say the commission has made significant progress from 2017, when the country had to conduct a repeat poll after “widespread discrepancies” by the electoral body. A decade earlier, more than 1,200 people were killed in widespread violence after the 2007 presidential vote. “He is saying that Chebukati made the announcement without involving the four other commissioners who have sidestepped the declaration of the results, but the commission does not make a decision about the results – it only announces it. The commissioners also said Chebukati did not address some of the political parties’ complaints before calling the win. [outbreaks of violence in some of Odinga’s strongholds](https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2022/aug/15/kenya-william-ruto-declared-president-elect-amid-chaos-and-dispute-video) on Monday after the results were announced. “The results of the presidential elections held in August 9th 2022, declared and announced by Mr Wafula Chebukati on August 15th, 2022 belonged to himself and do not represent the (position) of the commission,” said the deputy chair of the electoral body, Juliana Cherera.

Chebukati figures are null and void, says Raila (The Star, Kenya)

Azimio la Umoja presidential candidate Raila Odinga has come out to claim that IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati's declaration of William Ruto as ...

Raila achieved 25 per cent of the votes cast in 34 counties. Figures announced by Chebukati are null and void and must be quashed by a court of law." "He could have plunged the country into chaos.

Kenya's Odinga says presidential election result 'null and void' (swissinfo.ch)

By George Obulutsa and Ayenat Mersie NAIROBI/KISUMU (Reuters) -Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga rejected as null and void the result of an Aug.

Poor Kenyans already reeling from the impact of COVID-19 have been hit by soaring food and fuel costs while a devastating drought in the north has left 4.1 million people dependent on food aid. 9 presidential election he was declared to have lost to Deputy President William Ruto and warned on Tuesday of a long legal crisis facing Kenya's democracy. Cherera later said that one of her main claims was based on a mathematical error. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, adding Guterres hoped the electoral process would be completed in accordance with the law. "Let no one take the law into their own hands," he said. The 55-year-old Ruto made Kenya's class divisions the centrepiece of his campaign to become Kenya's fifth president, promising to reward low-income "hustlers", but in his victory speech on Monday vowed to be a president for all Kenyans.