Nairobi — Near 10,000 votes had been erroneously awarded to United Democratic Alliance presidential flag bearer William Ruto in Kind 34B within the Kiambu City constituency.
Information learn by the ballot fee indicated that Ruto had garnered 51,050 votes whereas his closest rival Raila Odinga of the Azimio La Umoja had 14,860 votes, Waihiga Mwaure (Agano Get together) and George Wajackoyah (Roots Get together) had 318 votes every.
Nonetheless, the summation of the entire votes provides to 66,346 votes which surpasses the entire legitimate votes that are 56,546.
The ballot company additionally famous that errors had been made within the summation of Odinga’s vote.
Kind 34B in Kiambu City constituency collated that he had 14,760 omitting 100 votes he garnered in Thindigua main college polling station.
IEBC commissioner Justus Nyag’anya whereas giving the spontaneous updates clarified that the errors had been rectified in Kind 34C which is the presidential outcomes declaration kind.
“Thanks journalist for elevating that concern. There have been errors made in knowledge capturing in Kind 34B however the knowledge was captured appropriately in Kind 34As. The information was corrected in Kind 34C.”
“In Thindigua polling station it was captured that Raila had 111 votes however in Kind 34B it was captured as 11 votes,”Nyaganya said.
To date the fee has verified and tallied leads to 71 out 290 constituencies.
Official Presidential outcomes as at 1:03pm Saturday had been as follows:
Raila Odinga
AZIMIO
52.54%
2,288,315 Votes
William Ruto
UDA
46.76%
2,036,795 Votes
George Wajackoyah
RPK
0.45%
20,002Votes
David Waihiga
AGANO
0.23%
10,167Votes