(IEBC) Chairman has issued a warning that presidential candidates have no Mandate to declare the winner, amid anxiety over the ongoing tallying of Presidential results.
The IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati, also the Returning Officer of the presidential election, claimed he is the only one assigned the duty of declaring the winner once the electioneering process is complete.
“No one should declare themselves winner or release their results, that is the work of the commission and the Returning Officer,” Chebukati said during an update early Friday at the Bomas of Kenya.
The warning comes in after threats issued by some of the party officials who claimed that they will release the results of their tally if the electoral body does not announce the winner.
Several media houses operating their tally are also yet to wrap up the process that started on Tuesday night.
By 1 Friday, 80 Returning Officers had arrived at the Bomas of Kenya with results on Form 34 A for verification.
Chebukati, who had released results from 6 constituencies earlier committed to increasing the verification process by pulling up more verification desks from 5.
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By Friday morning, Deputy President William Ruto had garnered more votes from the 6 constituency results released.
