{"id":427280,"date":"2017-10-10T14:44:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/10\/raila-odinga-quits-kenya-election-re-run\/"},"modified":"2017-10-10T14:44:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:44:03","slug":"raila-odinga-quits-kenya-election-re-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/10\/raila-odinga-quits-kenya-election-re-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Raila Odinga quits Kenya election re-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-269415\">\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\"><img alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ODINGA-1-700x430.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has pulled out of October\u2019s election re-run.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Odinga said his withdrawal would give the electoral commission enough time to introduce reforms that will help deliver a more credible election.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court annulled the result of the original 8 August poll after finding irregularities and declaring it \u201cneither transparent or verifiable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The electoral commission had declared incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta the winner.<\/p>\n<p>It said Mr Kenyatta had won by a margin of 1.4 million votes.<\/p>\n<p>The re-run was due to take place on 26 October, but Mr Odinga said: \u201cAfter 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-bottom bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1\">\n<div id=\"bsac-268370-582641384\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-image \" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\" data-adid=\"268370\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bsac-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/starrwoman_posts.jpg\" alt=\"Starr Woman \u2013 Inside Posts\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has pulled out of October\u2019s election re-run. Mr Odinga said his withdrawal would give the electoral commission enough time to introduce reforms that will help deliver a more credible election. The Supreme Court annulled the result of the original 8 August poll after finding irregularities and declaring it \u201cneither transparent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raila Odinga quits Kenya election re-run - 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\/10\/10\/raila-odinga-quits-kenya-election-re-run\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Raila Odinga quits Kenya election re-run - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has pulled out of October\u2019s election re-run. 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