Ruto Pledges to Engage Odinga, Says Won't Sign Up for Handshake... CapitalFMKenya: Kenya
Speaking after his election was unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court, Ruto maintained that there will be no room for a 'handshake' referring to the March 2018 truce between outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta and Odinga, which he repeatedly blamed Jubilee government's failure in the second term.
"We offered alternative missions and visions and submitted to the sovereign decision of the citizens of Kenya. We are only competitors not enemies. We vied to strengthen and unite Kenya not to divide and weaken it." In its decision, the Supreme Court said it was satisfied that the President-Elect attained the 50 per cent plus one threshold and upheld his election.
Ruto was declared the President-Elect on August 15, 2022 after garnering 7,176,141 votes, representing 50.49 per cent of the votes cast, against Odinga's 6,942,930 votes, translating to 48.85 per cent of the votes cast. Koome also stated that IEBC sufficiently explained how the election technology kits work and that in areas where technology failed, they made sure that Kenyans voted using the manual register.On the second issue on whether there was interference in the uploading and transmission of polling station results from the polling stations to the IEBC public portal, Koome said that no credible evidence was presented.
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