NAIROBI KENYA, Jan 21 – President William Ruto has laughed off claims by the opposition that the he was rigged in.
Speaking during the installation of Kitale Catholic Bishop Henry Juma Odonya, the Head of State said he expected no other outcome given the political support he enjoys across the country.
“I am sure you now know why I won the elections. With somebody with the stature of (Outgoing Kitale Bishop) Maurice Crowley telling people to work with William Ruto, what other outcome did you expect,” he said
This comes days after Azimio la Umoja leaders led by Raila Odinga claimed their presidential candidate won last year’s presidential race citing an unverified whistleblower report which purported to outline how rigging and manipulation was done to overturn the will of the people.
Speaking earlier, Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetangula also told the opposition leaders to go slow on their claims.
“All those that want to revive back the last year’s things, I ask them to slow down. We want to move forward and meet the challenges that are affecting the people of Kenya, the shortage of food, water and the issues affecting the farmers,” Wetangula said.
Jeremiah Kioni who is Secretary General of the former ruling party Jubilee, a constituent member of Azimio, said Raila Odinga won with 8,170,355 votes.
He stated that there were discrepancies between the verified presidential results from 144 constituencies and those declared at the Bomas of Kenya by the electoral commission.
He claimed President William Ruto was a distant second with 5,915,973 votes representing 41.66 percent of the votes cast.
“We have maintained that the results announced by Chebukati didn’t reflect the will of Kenyans. The results were manipulated and what was present to Kenyans was far from the truth,” he said.
Kioni said results from 59 per cent of the country’s 290 constituencies could not be verified “with absolute certainty”.
