On Tuesday, August 16, Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition party flag bearer Raila Odinga rejected the presidential results announced by IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati.
Chebukati declared William Ruto the fifth President-elect after he scored 7,176,141 votes (50.49 percent of the vote cast) against Odinga’s 6,942,930 (48.8 percent). The difference between their votes was 233, 211 votes.
But speaking to journalists on Tuesday, August 16, the former Prime Minister said he will use available legal channels to challenge William Ruto’s presidential win.
Raila yesterday said his legal team will on Monday, August 22, file a petition challenging president-elect William Ruto’s win.
While exuding confidence that the Supreme Court will overturn Chebukati’s verdict, Raila said they have credible evidence to challenge the declaration of Ruto as president-elect in the August 9 presidential election.
Speaking after a church service in Nairobi on Sunday, August 21, the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya captain said the whole process was marred with irregularities and that the victory of the people will not be stolen.
He said the victory of the people will be known and that there will be no peace until the truth is known.
“There will be no reconciliation, peace, or justice until the truth is known. And the truth is already known because we know it ourselves, and we are going to show it in court starting tomorrow,” Raila Odinga affirmed.
Raila Odinga’s presidential running mate Martha Karua reiterated that there cannot be peace where there is no justice.
“Without justice, there cannot be lasting peace and for justice to happen, we need God,” Martha Karua said.
part of the evidence Azimio la Umoja’s legal team is banking on includes alleged irregularities and illegalities by the electoral agency such as inflated figures from some polling stations which they allege favored Raila’s bitter rival.
The lawyers are also arguing that there were discrepancies in numbers in the announced presidential results in William Ruto’s strongholds of Mt Kenya and Rift Valley as well as manipulation of Forms 34A that led to the posting of fake forms on the IEBC portal.
