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

 

Uhuru Kenyatta 'wins vote count'

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)