Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds President-Elect William Ruto's Victory

The Supreme Court has upheld President-elect William Ruto’s victory in the August 9th presidential election.

In a unanimous decision read by Chief Justice Martha Koome, the seven judges ruled that Ruto was validly elected, having attained the 50 percent plus threshold.

"We declare the election of the first respondent as President-elect to be valid..." said Koome.

"It is our finding that the declared President-Elect attained 50% +1 of all the votes cast in accordance with article 138.4 of the constitution.”

Ruto was declared the winner after garnering 7,176,141 votes, representing 50.49 percent of the total votes cast while his main rival Raila Odinga of the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya coalition party got 6,942,930 votes (48 percent).

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