IEBC has declared Uhuru Kenyatta president-elect, much to the chagrin of NASA leaders who dismissed the repeat poll as a sham and declared they will swear-in Raila Odinga.
As Opposition leaders expressed their displeasure with the turn of events at their press conferences, Jubilee Party's pushed commission chairman Wafula Chebukati to make the announcement.
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IEBC declared on Monday that Uhuru got 7,483,895 million votes and Raila, who withdrew over lack of reforms, 73,228.
"The total votes cast were 7,616,217 million and rejected ballots 37,713. This translates to a national voter turnout of 38.84 per cent," chairman Wafula Chebukati
said.
He said Uhuru won
with slightly more than 98 per cent of the vote and that the turnout
was just under 39 per cent of the 19.6 million registered voters.
Ahead of the announcement, Chebukati said the repeat poll was free and fair despite Opposition complaints over the vote that led to it boycotting the process.
"I'm satisfied that we were able to meet conditions that enabled the commission to deliver a free, fair and credible election," he said, noting he gave a statement on preparedness on October 18.
"I am confident we
did everything to ensure every Kenyan exercised their right to vote....We came up with a fresh presidential election management team to address concerns.
To us as IEBC, all Kenyans and observers, we have had a free, fair and credible election."
Commissioner Consolata Nkatha earlier said IEBC
has received and verified Forms 34B from all the constituencies where people voted on October 26.
Nkatha said the commission having completed the verification of forms 34B, has consulted
widely
on repercussion of announcing the results without the 25 constituencies in four counties of Siaya, Migori, Kisumu and Homa Bay.
She said the current political circumstances cannot determine an immediate practical time where the repeat election can be conducted in the said areas.
LONG JOURNEY SINCE AUGUST
The election followed the nullification of Uhuru's August 8 win by the Supreme Court.
After that vote, Uhuru was declared winner with 8,203,290 votes against Raila's 6,762,224 votes. Raila filed a petition against the result and Chief Justice David Maraga delivered a historical verdict on September 1.
The NASA leader's grounds were that the election was not free, fair, credible, and verifiable.
Four judges ruled in favour of nullifying the President's victory, saying election laws and the constitution were not followed. These were Maraga, Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu, Isaac Lenaola and Smokin Wanjala.
Two judges -
Njoki Ndung'u and Jackton Ojwang - ruled against the decision and a fresh election was ordered in 60 days.
"We were satisfied that the election was not conducted as the constitution dictates," Maraga said in the determination, noting the electoral agency
failed, neglected or refused to conduct the election in line with the law.
But he noted that the court found no evidence of misconduct on the part of the third respondent, Uhuru.
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IEBC embarked on the process of conducting another election amid protests and pushes for reforms at the commission.
Amid the protests, Raila pulled out and later transformed the National Super Alliance into a national resistance movement.
He says he will only retire from politics once the country is under better leadership.
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Raila argued that his withdrawal was occasioned by the fact that IEBC refused to address the 12 irreducible minimums they presented.
Among the demands were the removal of CEO Ezra Chiloba and other officials who allegedly bungled the August vote.
Raila did not want Dubai-based firm Al Ghurair to print ballot papers and OT-Morpho to supply KIEMS kits.
Despite his withdrawal,IEBC maintained the repeat election would go on as scheduled. Uhuru and Deputy President William Ruto also insisted it was legitimate.
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