Kenya’s Raila Odinga Files Court Petition Challenging Election Results

Kenya’s Raila Odinga Files Court Petition Challenging Election Results
Kenya's Azimio La Umoja Party (One Kenya Coalition Party) presidential candidate Raila Odinga waves to supporters outside the Milimani High Court in Nairobi on Aug. 22, 2022, after filing a petition to the country's top court challenging the result of the Aug. 9, 2022 election that handed victory to his rival William Ruto. SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images
Dominic Kirui
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Thirteen days after Kenya’s general election that saw where the country’s deputy president William Ruto declared the winner, his political rival Raila Odinga who came second has gone to the nation’s Supreme Court to challenge the results.

Accompanied by his running mate Martha Karua, their legal team, affiliates and members of the Azimio party (One Kenya Coalition Party), and their supporters, Raila delivered a truck full of boxes with evidence for the elections petition case as they filed it.