The opposition leader in Kenya, Raila Odinga on Tuesday described the repeat presidential election held on October 26 as a “fraud” and vowed not to recognize the declared winner, Uhuru Kenyatta and his government.
Odinga has said that his party the National Super Alliance (Nasa) would push for the formation of a People Assembly to govern the country until fresh election is held to elect what he called legitimate executive.
President Kenyatta on Monday after he was declared winner of the repeat poll said he anticipated protest from his political opponents following series of disruption to the repeat election in parts of the country.
Raila Odinga boycotted the October 26 repeat poll citing lack of reforms at the electoral commission as the main reason.
“Today we establish People’s Assembly to restore democracy in the country,” Mr Odinga said in Nairobi.
He further said that “The People’s Assembly will have the youth, religious leaders, economic interest groups and the civil society.”
Mr. Odinga said his party intends presenting petitions for the establishment of the new People Assembly with the “The assembly’s timetable to be released soon”.
The resistance wing of Nasa according to Mr. Odinga would embark on pro-democracy campaign through economic boycotts and picketing.
The IEBC said 7,447,014 people voted in the repeat poll characterized by violence in some opposition strongholds, which represented a turn-out of 43.04 per cent.
Daily Nation reported that of out of the 266 constituencies reported, President Kenyatta had 7,483, 895 votes, just 719,395 shy of the 8,203, 290 he had in the annulled poll.
All the other candidates had below 100,000 votes.
Source: Africafeeds.com
