RUTO THE PRESIDENT-ELECT.
The Deputy President, William Samoei Ruto has been announced as the new president-elect by the chairman of IEBC Wafula Chebukati. This is after the country was made to wait for more than 3 hours.
The Chairman of IEBC was meant to announce the news at 3 pm but later happened to announce the news a few minutes before 7 declaring Wiliam Ruto as the next President. Through his social media platform, the new president-elect William Ruto tweeted saying," For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future, "- Jeremiah 29:11.
The presidency seat had attracted 4 candidates, William Ruto, Raila Odinga, Waihiga Mwaure, and George Wajackoyah. William Ruto garnered 7, 176,141 votes making him at 50.49% of the total votes while his close competitor Raila Amollo Odinga got 6, 942,930 placing him at 48.85%., George Wajackoyah got 69,884 votes while the last one on the list was Davi Waihiga Mwaure who got 38,936 votes.
The outstanding
feature that shocked almost everyone was how William Samoei Ruto was able to
get more votes in places believed to be Raila’s Odinga stronghold. However, the delay made at Bomas before the announcement of the winning candidate was caused at Bomas, was because of the Azimio’s officials side having caused chaos minutes after
Wafula Chebukati arrived to announce the results. Ledama was seen being headed
out by the security after he started causing trouble.
The
chairman also announced during the whole exercise, a returning officer of
Embakasi East, Daniel Musyoki had gone missing and has not yet been found,. He
also noted that two of his commissioners Boya Molu and Abdi Guliye got injured.
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