Uhuru Kenyatta is Elected to Second Term as Kenya President

[Joe Kihara Munugu]

Uhuru Kenyatta has been elected to a second presidential term in Kenya. Uhuru will be handed his elections winning certificate today by Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) at the Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi. In the just completed 2017 Kenya Presidential Elections Uhuru garnered about 8.2 million votes (53.86%). Uhuru beat his opposition rival, Raila Odinga, who garnered about 6.8 million votes (44.54%) out of a total of about 15 million votes cast in the Presidential Elections.
Kenya's 2017 General Elections are being hailed across the world for being well conducted, transparent, peaceful and credible - a performance that many countries ought to emulate.

~ Friday, August 11, 2017  

[Joe Kihara Munugu]

Uhuru  was Declared Winner
Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC)  Chairman Wafula Chebukati has officially declared Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta as the duly elected President of the Republic of Kenya in the 2017 Presidential elections. Uhuru got 8,203,290 votes (54.27 percent) against Raila Odinga’s 6,762,224 votes (44.74 percent). Uhuru met the required "50% + 1" threshold. Six other presidential candidates got a combined percentage vote of 0.97 percent. Kenya's 2017 general election had a voter turnout of 79.17 percent.