Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said Friday that he disagreed with a Supreme Court decision invalidating his re-election and calling for fresh elections, but vowed to respect it.
“I personally disagree with the ruling that has been made today but I respect it,” he said, adding that he believed the six judges had “decided that they will go against the will of the people.”
The Kenya’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered a new presidential election within 60 days, after a shock ruling cancelling the results of last month’s poll over widespread irregularities.
Chief Justice David Maraga said a majority decision by the panel of six judges, with two dissenting, found that President Uhuru Kenyatta “was not validly elected”, rendering the result “invalid, null and void”.
Supporters of veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga’s wept and cheered, utterly stunned at what they saw as a historic justice rendered after losses in successive polls they believe were rigged, from a judiciary long seen as compromised in favour of the ruling elite.
Odinga, 72, hailed a “historic” ruling which he said was a first in Africa.
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