The Azimio la Umoja One Kenya
Coalition has once again come out to claim that its presidential candidate in
the August 9, 2022, General Election, Raila Odinga, won the contest ahead of
his then competitor and now president, William Ruto.
This time referencing a report
released by an alleged IEBC whistle-blower, Azimio stated that Raila won the
polls after garnering 8,170,355 votes ahead of Ruto who reportedly managed
5,919,973 votes.
Speaking in Nairobi on
Wednesday, Jubilee Secretary General Jeremiah Kioni (pictured) noted that the
aforementioned report proved beyond doubt that Odinga was the victor in the
August 2022 race to State House.
"59 percent of the
constituencies examined showed results that cannot be verified with absolute
certainty but again, in the same document, what has been verified so far shows
that Raila won the elections with 8,170,355 votes representing 57.53 of the
votes cast. Ruto got 5,915,973 votes representing 41.66 pc of the votes
cast," said Kioni.
According to Kioni, the report
shows that voting results from 144 constituencies were allegedly altered by
some IEBC officials to give Ruto an edge in the contest.
"What we have seen in one
of the pages is that at one point, 144 constituencies had their results
verified and often at times those results are far from the results announced by
IEBC," said Kioni.
He also claimed that the
majority of the alleged electoral malpractices were done within the Mt Kenya
region which has a notably large voter basket.
"Most of the manipulation
happened within the Mt. Kenya region," said the Jubilee Secretary General.
Kioni added that the Azimio
coalition will issue a comprehensive report on the findings, allegedly compiled
by NGO Vanguard Africa, once party leader Odinga returns from South Africa
where he is hosting a series of meetings in his capacity as the AU High
Representative for Infrastructure Development in Africa.
"As I said, the whistle-blower
is not hiding his identity. This is a study that has been done by a group known
as Vanguard Africa, an NGO that partners with pro-democracy leaders across
Africa," said Kioni.
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