Sunday 3 March 2013

[wanabidii] Odinga alleges unfairness before Kenyan vote

The PM's utterances over the last two days are highly indicative of a candidate preparing to reject the outcome of the election should it not be in their favour

The 2007 script just a different time, 2013, the objective: undermine the legitimacy of the election by claiming rigging and irregularities:

KAREN, Kenya | Sat Mar 2, 2013 4:56pm GMT

One of Kenya's top two presidential rivals accused the electoral commission on Saturday of disadvantaging him by "design or omission" in Monday's vote, a poll intended to reassert the rule of law after savage post-election tribal fighting in 2007.

Speaking in the lush garden of his villa in the Karen suburb on the outskirts of Nairobi before heading out for a final rally, Odinga said some 4 million people who should have been on voter lists had been left off, although he did not say how many he viewed as his backers.

Some 14 million Kenyans have been registered to vote.

Odinga said the election commission had failed to send enough biometric registration kits to strongholds of his Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD), so that his supporters were under-represented on voter lists.

"Rigging of an election is not just on the polling date," Odinga said. "I don't know whether it is by design or by omission."

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/02/uk-kenya-elections-odinga-idUKBRE92106S20130302





 

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