KENYA: Odinga holds lead with 21% votes counted

🔵 LIVE – Kenya election RESULTS as at 4am
✳ Odinga – 57.13% ➡ 1,731,077 votes
✳ Ruto – 42.17% ➡ 1,279,733
✳ Wajackoyah – 0.47% ➡ 14,297
✳ Waihiga- 0.21% ➡ 6,659

* Results from 9,743 polling stations out of 46,229 (21%)

Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Latest results, read out at 4am this morning, indicate Kenya’s election body IEBC has so far verified 21% of the votes as they stepped up the process at their tally headquarters.

Azimio la Umoja (Resolution for Unity) One Kenya Coalition candidate Raila Odinga has 57% of the votes counted so far, with Ruto of Kenya Kwanza (Kenya First) Alliance taking 42.17% for far. The votes announced are from 9,743 polling stations out of 46,229.

Kenya’s election body on Friday finally started releasing official results from this week’s polls after delivery of the physical forms by returning officers.

Focus is now fully back to the official results from IEBC after a frustrating Thursday night in which provisional results saw Ruto and Odinga stuck at 49% all afternoon and night. The winner of presidential elections needs 50% + 1 of the valid votes cast and at least 25% votes in more than 24 counties

Media houses in Kenya slowed down the counting amidst social media reports that results websites had been hacked.

The IEBC also last night announced that one of their returning officers in the capital city is missing. The matter has been handed to police, but election counting will continue.

“We wish to inform the country that our returning officer for Embakasi East Constituency, Mr Daniel Musyoka, has been reported missing while on duty at the East African School of Aviation Centre,” said Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Wafula Chebukati.

The official, it is reported, went out to take a phone call on August 11, and his bodyguard noted that he did not return.

Chebukati sated that, “Reports received by the commission indicate that around 9:00am on 11th of August (yesterday), he was escorted from his house to the tallying centre by his bodyguards, but around 9:45 am, he excused himself to make a telephone call but never returned to the office.”

The electoral boss said that is family and the commission have been trying to reach him without success and his duties are now being handled by the deputy Returning Officer. A report of a missing person has been made at Embakasi Police Station.

The IEBC is now hosting all returning officers from across the country who will verify forms 34A and B at the Bomas of Kenya.

Kenya on Tuesday held its seventh general election since the introduction of multiparty politics in 1991 where  voters lined to elect the country’s fifth president, members of the National Assembly, senators, and county governors.Kenyans are voting for 16,105 candidates, who are vying for a total of 1,879 elective positions.

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YESTERDAY’S UPDATE

IEBC OFFICIAL RESULTS: Ruto 51%, Odinga 47%