The leader of Kenya’s Super National Alliance (NASA), Raila Odinga, on Tuesday unexpectedly pulled out of the election re-run scheduled for later this month, the BBC reported.
The Supreme Court annulled the result of the original 8 August poll after finding irregularities and declaring it “neither transparent or verifiable”.
The electoral commission had declared incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta the winner.
It said Mr Kenyatta had won by a margin of 1.4 million votes.
Reports from Kenya quoted Odinga as saying: “After deliberating on our position in respect of the upcoming election, considering the interests of the people of Kenya, the region and the world at large, we believe that all will be best served by the party vacating its presidential candidature in the election scheduled for 26 October 2017”.
– African News Agency (ANA)
