Uhuru Kenyatta Heading For Victory in 2013 Kenyan Presidential Election
Uhuru Kenyatta Heading For Victory
Uhuru Kenyatta, the Kenyan presidential candidate indicted for crimes against
humanity, was heading for victory after he opened up a double digit lead
over his main rival
Kenyatta was ahead with 53 % to Raila Odinga's 42 % with
ballots from Monday's election counted in around half of the country's
33,000 polling stations.
Both were neck-and-neck with about 44 % in opinion polls before the
vote
Kenya's Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta appears to have won the
presidential election by the tightest of margins, provisional results
indicate.After all the votes were counted he had polled 50.03% of the vote, 4,109 votes over the threshold required for outright victory.
Kenyatta won 6,173,433 votes out of a total of 12,338,667, well ahead of
the prime minister, who polled 5,340,546 - or 43.28% of the vote
Both candidates have complained of irregularities during the course of the count, since Monday's election
The official result will not come until 11:00 on Saturday March 9,2013 (08:00 GMT)
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