Kenya faces constitutional crisis as Raila Odinga exits election rerun
Nairobi — Kenyan opposition presidential candidate Raila Odinga on Tuesday withdrew from a rerun of the country’s annulled presidential election, pushing the East African nation towards a constitutional crisis. Odinga, the leader of the National Super Alliance, said he was pulling out of the race because the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission refused to discuss proposed changes to its personnel and procedures to ensure the vote is free and fair. The announcement came as President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee party proposed amendments to the electoral law that would allow the authority to declare a winner if one of the contestants withdraws from the contest. "We are going to a major political crisis, a major constitutional crisis," Prof Peter Wanyande, a political scientist at the University of Nairobi, said. "In a democracy, which we are by virtue of our constitution, you cannot hold an election with only one candidate." Uncertainty about the rerun has unnerved investors an...
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