Opposition claims proof Odinga won Kenya polls

Kenya’s opposition National Super Alliance said it has evidence that former Prime Minister Raila Odinga won the nation’s August 8 presidential election.

The alliance has a document containing “authentic, unpolluted, unadulterated” data that shows Odinga and his running mate, Kalonzo Musyoka, were the legitimate winners of the vote, Nasa Senator James Orengo told reporters yesterday in the capital, Nairobi.

Odinga garnered 8.1 million ballots in the vote, compared with 7.9 million for incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta, Godfrey Osotsi, a Nasa lawmaker, said at the briefing.

Manipulation charge

“If anyone had any doubts as to why Raila should be sworn in as president of Kenya, if you go through this document you come to the conclusion” that Odinga won, Orengo said. “There was interference and manipulation of the results transmitted” by the country’s electoral commission, he said.

Kenya’s Supreme Court annulled the result of the August election in September, the first time an African tribunal has overturned the outcome of a presidential vote.