Karua: I Don't Recognize William Ruto as President

Narc-Kenya party leader Martha Karua has insisted she does not recognize William Ruto as the duly elected president of the Republic of Kenya.

Karua, who was the running mate of the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya coalition party presidential candidate Raila Odinga, maintained that the results of the August 9th election were manipulated.

“The law recognizes him, I don’t. I have a choice; he is the president courtesy of the law. I don’t have to over praise that position,” Karua said in an interview with Spice FM on Wednesday.

“I still stand here to say that the results were doctored. You can’t stop my brain from working and force me to believe,” she added.

Karua said she is still seeking the truth about the August 9th presidential election where Ruto was declared the winner with more than 50 percent of the votes cast, and has since moved to the Arusha-based East Africa Court of Justice.

“My belief is based on my conscience but giving the way to the law is obeying the law. The court spoke we gave way but we are still seeking the truth. I will continue saying that tulirushwa (hoodwinked),” Karua remarked.

“I have presented my case to the Arusha court, and this time I will also go there to find out whether we got justice.”

Seven judges of the Supreme Court unanimously upheld Ruto’s victory, dismissing all the nine issues in the consolidated presidential petition filed by Odinga, Karua and others.

The judges said that the petitioners failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that there was electoral malfeasance to warrant annulment.

“Any irregularities were not of such magnitude as to affect the final results of the presidential election,” the court ruled.

The court found that the technology used by the Independent and Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) met the standards of “integrity, verifiability, security and transparency”.

The judges also said they did not find any evidence of hacking and that no evidence was produced to show that IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati and other IEBC officials were in volved.