Kenyatta maintains strong lead in Kenya vote - election commission

Record ID: 905853

  • Title: Kenyatta maintains strong lead in Kenya vote - election commission
  • Date: 9th August 2017
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF NEWSPAPER HEADLINES READING (English): 'Uhuru opens a 1.2 million gap / Uhuru leads/ Uhuru takes the lead in early vote count'
  • Embargoed: 23rd August 2017 07:35
  • Keywords: Kenyan elections reactions results newspaper headlines President Uhuru Kenyatta
  • Location: NAIROBI, KENYA
  • City: NAIROBI, KENYA
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA0026TFP8W7
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Kenya's capital Nairobi got off to a slow start on Wednesday (August 9) morning after a vote that has seen incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta maintaining a strong lead in the election count.
    Streets in the capital were quiet due to fears of post-election violence.
    The electoral commission website showed Kenyatta with 54.8 percent of the vote against 44.3 percent for opposition leader Raila Odinga, a margin of nearly 1.4 million votes.
    Odinga rejected early results as "fictitious" and "fake", lashing out in a late night news conference saying his party's own tally put him in the lead.
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