{"id":414820,"date":"2017-09-05T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T11:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/05\/odinga-rejects-re-run-date\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T11:18:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T11:18:25","slug":"odinga-rejects-re-run-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/05\/odinga-rejects-re-run-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Odinga rejects re-run date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga said on Tuesday his coalition would not participate in the re-run of a presidential election proposed for Oct. 17 unless it is given \u201clegal and constitutional\u201d guarantees.<\/p>\n<p>Odinga\u2019s conditions include the removal of some officials at the election board. He wants criminal investigations to be opened against them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot do a mistake twice and expect to get different results,\u201d Odinga told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s Supreme Court ordered on Friday that the Aug. 8 vote be re-run within 60 days, saying President Uhuru Kenyatta\u2019s victory by 1.4 million votes was undermined by irregularities in the process. Kenyatta was not accused of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the election board said it would hold new elections on Oct. 17.<\/p>\n<p>But Odinga said he wanted elections held on Oct. 24 or 31 instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be no elections on the seventeenth of October until the conditions that we have spelt out in the statement are met,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Odinga has contested and lost the last three presidential elections in Kenya. 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Odinga\u2019s conditions include the removal of some officials at the election board. He wants criminal investigations to be opened against them. \u201cYou cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":413676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Odinga rejects re-run date - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/05\/odinga-rejects-re-run-date\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Odinga rejects re-run date - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga said on Tuesday his coalition would not participate in the re-run of a presidential election proposed for Oct. 17 unless it is given \u201clegal and constitutional\u201d guarantees. 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