President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday evening questioned the decision of the Supreme Court of Kenya to uphold the presidential election victory of Dr. William Ruto.
Uhuru in his address appeared to lament that the Supreme Court had placed Ruto’s numbers ahead of the process and made the suggestion that Ruto’s win should have been nullified just as his 2017 election victory was nullified.
“We must ask ourselves, is it about numbers or is it about process? Which of these two is it? Can our institutions rule one way in one election and another way in another election without scrutiny?” said Uhuru in his address.
“Do the truths given by our institutions correspond with what is observable by the citizen? True judgements must correspond to the actual state of affairs. Do our constitutional institutions meet this threshold.”
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In the address, Uhuru refused to mention Ruto by name. He also refused to congratulate him, in what was interpreted as the climax of their bitter fall out.
He however pledged that he would hand over power to Dr. Ruto’s administration which scheduled to be sworn in on September 13.
President Uhuru has been acting as the chairman of the Azimio la Umoja coalition. He has been backing the candidature of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
