On Monday, August 22, Raila Odinga filed a 72-page petition seeking to invalidate IEBC presidential results that declared William Ruto President-elect in the just concluded General Election.
In the online petition filed at the Supreme Court registry on Monday, August 22, the former Prime Minister alleged that his analysis revealed that William Ruto was fraudulently given 217, 631 extra votes.
Raila stated that the extra votes were to ensure that the Kenya Kwanza Alliance presidential flag bearer achieved the 50 percent plus one vote required to win the presidency.
He said the 217, 631 extra votes were divided in almost all counties including Kirinyaga County which had almost 35,000 votes.
However, taking to her social media pages on Tuesday, August 23, Kirinyaga Governor-elect Anne Waiguru dismissed claims that there were 35000 extra votes added to William Ruto’s presidential basket in the August 9, elections.
While insisting that there were no ghost voters in Kirinyaga, Waiguru said 262,723 registered voters cast their presidential ballot whereas 261,823 voted for gubernatorial candidates.
Waiguru, who was re-elected on a United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party ticket instead challenged Raila to point out the alleged extra votes.
“The total votes cast for Kirinyaga Gubernatorial candidates are 261,823 and Presidential Candidates are 262,723. Please point out the alleged 35K opaque votes,” Waiguru said in a Tweet.
According to the numbers shared by Waiguru, only 900 voters in Kirinyaga cast their votes for presidential candidates alone.
According to a section of leaders allied to Azimio la Umoja, some of the IEBC officials colluded with Kenya Kwanza Alliance agents in William Ruto’s strongholds where they issued extra presidential ballot papers to voters.
