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'I vehemently disagree' Raila breaks silence after Supreme Court ruling

September 05, 2022 0
Azimio La Umoja-One Kenya presidential candidate Raila Odinga has said he respects Monday’s ruling by the Supreme Court upholding the election of President-elect William Ruto.

In a statement to newsrooms,Raila said the Azimio Coalition stands for the rule of law and respects the Supreme Court ruling although they “vehemently disagree” with it.

“We have always stood for the rule of law and the constitution. In this regard, we respect the opinion of the court although we vehemently disagree with their decision today,” said Raila.

“Our lawyers proffered irrefutable evidence and the facts were on our side, unfortunately the judges saw it otherwise,” he added.

On Monday a seven Judge bench led by Chief Justice Martha Koome, unanimously upheld the election of President-elect William Ruto in the August 9 polls.

"We declare the election of the first respondent as President-elect to be valid..." Chief Justice Martha Koome ruled at 1:34PM.

At the same time, Raila took issue with the abridged judgment saying it was “incredible” that the Supreme Court would dismiss all the nine issues they had raised with the presidential results in their petition.

“We find it incredible that the judges found against us on all nine (9) grounds and occasion resulted in unduly exaggerated language to refute our claims,” he said.

 “This judgement is by no means the end of our movement, in fact it inspires us to redouble our efforts to transform this country into a prosperous democracy where each and every Kenyan can find their full belonging.”

Mr.Odinga thanked his supporters noting "We will be communicating in the near future on our plans to continue our struggle for transparency, accountability and democracy.”

Odinga and his running mate Martha Karua had moved to court seeking to nullify William Ruto’s election.

Electoral body Chairman Wafula Chebukati declared Dr. Ruto as the winner of the presidential election after garnering 7,176,141 votes, representing 50.49 per cent of the per cent of the total votes cast. 

Odinga came in second with 6,942,930 votes, which translates to 48.85 per cent of the votes cast.

Earlier in the day, Karua had reacted to the Apex Court ruling saying she respects the decision although she does not agree with its findings.

“The court has spoken. I respect but disagree with the findings,” she said in a tweet minutes after the ruling.


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Lizz Truss elected UK Prime Minister

September 05, 2022 0
United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was on Monday announced as the UK's next prime minister, after winning an internal leadership contest of the ruling Conservative party.

Ms. Truss beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, by 81,326 votes to 60,399, after a summer-long internal contest sparked by Boris Johnson's resignation in July.

She becomes UK's third female prime minister following Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher.

The contest for the seat begun in July after Johnson announced his departure following a series of scandals and resignations from his government.

The 47 year old campaigned on a promise to slash taxes and prioritise economic growth, with Britain tipped to enter recession later this year promising to ''within a month present a full plan for how we are going to reduce taxes" and "get the British economy going".

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