Kenyan Election: Odinga commends annulment of presidential elections

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has on Friday commended the court decision annulling the Kenyan Presidential election, won by President Uhuru Kenyatta.

“This is a historic day for the people of Kenya and by extension for the people of the continent of Africa,” said Odinga, adding it was the first time a presidential result had been overturned in Africa.

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“We are ready for elections but we don’t have confidence” in the electoral commission (IEBC), he added.

“Those commissioners must go,” said Odinga. “Most of them belong in jail.”

The court pronounced that the Presidential election be nullified while a fresh election be conducted within the next 60 days.