Less
than 35 percent of electorates came out to vote in yesterday's election
with early results indicating that President Uhuru Kenyatta is cruising
to victory.
President Uhuru Kenyatta
President Uhuru Kenyatta is cruising home to victory as the result
of Kenya’s rerun election trickled in on Friday. But it is an assumed
victory that is tainted with early estimates of the turnout at below 35
percent, compared with the 80 per cent turnout in the 8 August election.
The poll snub by voters indicated that they heeded the call by the
opposition leader Raila Odinga, to stay at home. The first election, in
August, was annulled by the courts because of procedural irregularities,
denying Kenyatta a simple victory over his long-term political rival.
If the expected legal challenges fail to clear a path out of the
crisis, including a possible order for another re-run, the stage is set
for a protracted and economically damaging political stalemate between
the Kenyatta and Odinga camps.
“Unless the courts annul the election, Kenyatta will move
forward without a clear mandate and Odinga will pursue a protest
strategy whose chances of success in the circumstances are not very
high,” International Crisis Group analyst Murithi Mutiga said.
Voting on Thursday passed off without a hitch in pro-Kenyatta areas
but was marred by skirmishes between police and stone-throwing
opposition supporters in four pro-Odinga counties where polling stations
were from prevented from opening.
The division was neatly captured in local media, with the Standard, a leading tabloid, headlining its front page: “One Kenya, two faces”.
The outcome is being closely watched across East Africa, which
relies on Kenya as a trade and logistics hub, and in the West, which
considers Nairobi a bulwark against Islamist militancy in Somalia and
conflict in South Sudan and Burundi.
Election officials postponed voting in the trouble-spots – all
staunchly pro-Odinga districts – for 48 hours although there is little
prospects of the delay making any difference given the strict local
adherence to the calls for a boycott.
In all, four people were shot dead by police – three in the
pro-Odinga western city of Kisumu, governor Anyang Nyong‘o said, and one
in the neighboring county of Homa Bay, according to police.
The election commission said more than one in 10 polling stations failed to open due to “security challenges”.
Its chairman, Wafula Chebukati, Tweeted overnight that 6.55 million
ballots had been cast – just 34.5 percent of registered voters.
On Friday morning, shops started to re-open and traffic returned to
Kisumu and the restive Nairobi slums of Kibera and Mathare, although
the roads were littered with rocks and the remnants of burnt barricades.
Around 50 people have been killed, mostly by security forces, since
the original Aug. 8 vote, raising fears of sustained violence only a
decade after 1,200 people were killed in serious ethnic fighting
triggered by another disputed vote.
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