The hearing of the presidential election petition challenging UDA presidential candidate William Ruto‘s win entered into the second day on Wednesday, August 31.
Activist Okiya Omtatah, who is one of the petitioners challenging the election outcome in the August 9 presidential election maintained that William Ruto did not legally win the polls.
Okiya in his 3 minutes submission argued that the presidential results released by the IEBC faction led by commission’s chairperson Wafula Chebukati were mathematically wrong.
The vocal activist claimed that there could have been 508,647 ghost voters in the August 9th presidential election results.
“There may have been at least 508,687 ghost voters in the presidential election,” he said.
Omtata, who elected Busia senator in the just-ended General Election, further insisted that Ruto did not achieve the 50 percent plus one vote required by law to be declared the winner.
He asked the IEBC through the Supreme Court to come clean on how the numbers of voters were still increasing on the kiems kits a day even after the voting exercise had been closed.
“Some kiems kits were still transmitting data a day after the closing of elections, which could have been an avenue to add the ghost voters,” he said.
In his submissions, Omtatah told the court that as of 8.45 pm on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, when voting had already been closed countrywide, the correct number of votes cast through the electronic Kiems kits stood at 13,731,215.
He, however, pointed out that on Wednesday, August 10, the polling turnout went higher to 14,239,842, a difference of 508,647 votes which he termed as mysterious.
“This spike in votes is not possible if we factor in the fact that most voters had cast their votes by close of voting on 9th August 2022,” he said.
