Kenya’s capital Nairobi got off to a slow start on Wednesday morning after a vote that has seen incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta maintaining a strong lead in the election count.
The electoral commission website showed Kenyatta with 54.8 percent of the vote against 44.3 percent for opposition leader Raila Odinga, a margin of nearly 1.4 million votes. Odinga rejected early results as “fictitious” and “fake”, lashing out in a late night news conference saying his party’s own tally put him in the lead. The opposition leader’s comments have raised fears that his supporters could mount street protests.
“They (the results) are fictitious, they are fake,” he told a news conference, saying the election board was required by law to display forms signed by party observers from each polling centre certifying the results and had not done so. Instead, the election board was displaying a running tally on its website that showed Kenyatta leading with roughly 55 percent of the vote after nearly three-quarters of polling stations had reported results.
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