Kenya Supreme Court annuls elections, Calls for rerun
Kenya’s Supreme Court has annulled the country’s presidential election which was held on August 8, this year.
In its ruling today, the court upheld the opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) party’s claim of tampering and rigging in favour of the incumbent led by President Uhuru Kenyatta and ordered the country’s electoral commission to reorganize the presidential poll.
President Kenyatta who was declared winner of the presidential elections on August 11 by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) was aiming for a second 5-year term, but will now have to face the opposition’s Raila Odinga in a re-run in 60 days.
Mr. Odinga has run for the presidency on three different occasions without success.
A similar case was brought before the Supreme Court by Mr. Odinga in 2013, and saw the court being widely criticized when it rejected the opposition’s claims in the elections against Mwai Kibaki who was then the incumbent.
In 2007, more than 1,100 people died in Kenya as a result of ethnic violence instigated by politicians, following that year’s elections.
