The Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition has come out yet again to claim that Raila Odinga, its presidential candidate in the August 9, 2022, General Election, won the race ahead of his then competitor and now president, William Ruto.
This time, citing a report released by an alleged IEBC whistleblower, Azimio claimed that Raila won the election with 8,170,355 votes to Ruto’s 5,919,973 votes.
Speaking on Wednesday in Nairobi, Jubilee Secretary General Jeremiah Kioni stated that the aforementioned report proved beyond doubt that Odinga was the winner of the August 2022 race for State House.
“59 percent of the constituencies examined showed results that cannot be verified with absolute certainty but again, in the same document, what has been verified so far shows that Raila won the elections with 8,170,355 votes representing 57.53 of the votes cast. Ruto got 5,915,973 votes representing 41.66 pc of the votes cast,” Kioni said.
According to Kioni, the report alleges that some IEBC officials tampered with voting results from 144 constituencies in order to give Ruto an advantage in the race.
“What we have seen in one of the pages is that at one point, 144 constituencies had their results verified and often at times those results are far from the results announced by IEBC,” said Kioni.
He also claimed that the majority of the alleged electoral malpractices were done within the Mt Kenya region which has a notably large voter basket.
Kioni added that once party leader Odinga returns from South Africa, where he is hosting a series of meetings in his capacity as the AU High Representative for Infrastructure Development in Africa, the Azimio coalition will issue a comprehensive report on the findings, allegedly compiled by NGO Vanguard Africa.
“As I said, the whistleblower is not hiding his identity. This is a study that has been done by a group known as Vanguard Africa, an NGO that partners with pro-democracy leaders across Africa,” said Kioni.
“You can reach him @smith-jeffreyt. That document is available. As I said a comprehensive statement will be issued by our party leader and I ask that you take time to go through the findings before then.”
From his LinkedIn profile, Jeffrey Smith describes his organization as a nonprofit organization that supports free and fair election campaigns and pro-democracy leaders across the African continent.
Smith’s profile further indicates that he is a veteran human rights campaigner, writer, and consultant who has advised several presidents and pro-democracy opposition leaders from over a dozen African countries.
