- Title: Odinga supporters celebrate after party declares win in Kenya election
- Date: 10th August 2017
- Summary: KISUMU, KENYA (AUGUST 10, 2017) (REUTERS) SUPPORTERS OF OPPOSITION LEADER RAILA ODINGA RUNNING IN STREET CELEBRATING, AFTER A SENIOR PARTY OFFICIAL CLAIMS TO HAVE PROOF THAT ODINGA LEADS IN THE ELECTION PEOPLE STANDING AND LOOKING ON VARIOUS OF POLICE HELICOPTER FLYING / PEOPLE SHOUTING TOP VIEW OF HUNDREDS OF SUPPORTERS CELEBRATING PEOPLE RUNNING CELEBRATING SUPPORTER BEATING DRUM SUPPORTER WITH CLOWN'S WIG AND POSTER OF ODINGA (SOUNDBITE) (Swahili) KISUMU RESIDENT, FELIX MISACHI, SAYING: "I am very happy about this, now I am beginning to know 'Canaan' (the promised land) is real." VARIOUS OF SUPPORTER WEEPING SUPPORTERS CHANTING (SOUNDBITE) (Swahili) KISUMU RESIDENT, DOUGLAS ONGAGO, SAYING: "People of Kondele started the journey on Monday, and we were happy knowing we must get change and ultimately we are happy now because we know we are going to 'Canaan' because 'Baba' (Odinga) is there." SUPPORTER BLOWING VUVUZELA
- Embargoed: 24th August 2017 17:03
- Keywords: Odinga supporters celebrate Kisumu the winner opponent Uhuru Kenyatta in the lead Kenyan election opposition leader
- Location: KISUMU, KENYA
- City: KISUMU, KENYA
- Country: Kenya
- Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA0016TKRCJR
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Supporters of Kenya opposition leader Raila Odinga celebrated briefly in his stronghold of Kisumu on Thursday (August 10) after a senior official in his party declared him the winner of the general election.
The National Super Alliance (NASA) said according to their own calculations Odinga had won, when the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) figures showed Jubilee party leader Uhuru Kenyatta in the lead by more than 54 percent.
Musalia Mudavadi, a senior official in NASA told reporters that information from "confidential sources" at the election commission showed Odinga had secured victory by just under 300,000 votes, but provided no evidence.
Minutes after the statement broadcast live on Kenya television stations and on Odinga's website, hundreds of his supporters, mainly young men, poured onto the streets of the opposition stronghold of Kisumu in celebration. At least one truck of anti-riot police followed them, a Reuters witness said.
Odinga has said provisional results were "fictitious" and a product of a hacked system, but he has again put forward no evidence.
International observers on Thursday praised the handling of the election and the European Union mission said it had seen no sign of manipulation. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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