Kenya: Uhuru Kenyatta re-elected to second term as president

Kenya’s election commission announced Friday that President Uhuru Kenyatta has won a second term as opposition candidate Raila Odinga claimed the vote was flawed.

The commission said Kenyatta won Tuesday’s election with 54 percent of the vote.

The election commission rejected Odinga’s claims that its database was hacked and results manipulated against him.
This may have been the last chance at the presidency for the 72-year-old Odinga after three unsuccessful attempts.

Odinga, a former prime minister, claims that hackers infiltrated the election commission’s computer system with the identity of a murdered election official and altered results to favor the 55-year-old Kenyatta, the son of Kenya’s first president after independence from British colonial rule.

The election commission said there was a hacking attempt but it failed.
The opposition earlier Friday said it had asked for access to the commission’s servers to confirm whether the alleged hacking took place, and it said it would accept the results even if they showed that Kenyatta won.

Kenyatta has not commented on Odinga’s allegations.

Election observers have said they saw no signs of interference with the vote. Election officials spent recent days confirming provisional results with checks of documents from polling stations nationwide.

Source: Associated Press