- Figures show
Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding president, won a presidential election with a slim margin of 50.03 percent of votes cast, provisional figures displayed by the election commission on a screen showed on Saturday.
Kenyatta, who faces international charges of crimes against humanity, secured 6,173,433 votes out of a total of 12,338,667 ballots cast, indicating that he had secured the more than 50 percent of votes needed for a first round win.
Kenya's election commission said it expected to announce a final result in a tightly fought presidential election at 11 a.m. (8:00 a.m. British time) on Saturday, extending an already delayed count after earlier saying it would issue a final tally on Friday.
"We will do our final declaration not this evening but (Saturday) morning around 11 o'clock," Yusuf Nzibo told a news conference. "So please be patient because this is a serious matter. We want to make sure as a commission that our figures are accurate."
Source: Reuters
Kenya's election commission said it expected to announce a final result in a tightly fought presidential election at 11 a.m. (8:00 a.m. British time) on Saturday, extending an already delayed count after earlier saying it would issue a final tally on Friday.
"We will do our final declaration not this evening but (Saturday) morning around 11 o'clock," Yusuf Nzibo told a news conference. "So please be patient because this is a serious matter. We want to make sure as a commission that our figures are accurate."
Source: Reuters
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