Kenya’s election woes continue as opposition vows civil unrest
Nairobi — Kenya’s main opposition alliance said on Tuesday it would not challenge the results of last week’s disputed presidential election re-run in court, and instead vowed to mobilise its supporters to press for a third vote. "We won’t prevent citizens going to court" to try to nullify the outcome, Musalia Mudavadi, the co-principal of the four-party National Super Alliance (Nasa), said in Nairobi, the capital, on Tuesday. "As Nasa, we are not going to court." President Uhuru Kenyatta secured 98.3% of the vote in an October 26 election that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) said was free and fair, but was boycotted by Nasa leader Raila Odinga, who described it as a sham. The electoral agency said the turnout dropped to 38.8% from 79% in an August 8 contest that also handed victory to Kenyatta and which the country’s supreme court nullified after the electoral agency failed to disprove opposition claims of rigging. The opposition’s decision to shun the leg...
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