Wajir leaders petition county election winners at the High Court citing glaring evidence

Adow Mohamed Abikar at a past rally in Wajir County. (Kulan Post)

NAIROBI—A senate aspirant who lost in this month’s elections has filed petition at the High Court to nullify the final results.

Mohamed Adow Abikar who vied on a KANU ticket is set to challenge the victory of Abdullahi Ali of Jubilee party urguing that the elections process was not free and fair.

“The results declared by the IEBC show that I lost narrowly to Abdullahi Ibrahim of Jubilee party. Yet this was a sham election,” Abikar said at a press statement seen by Kulan Post.

He wants the court to undertake proper audit of form 34A which, he says, would bring out results as desired by voters in Wajir.

By the close of tally, IEBC county returning officer announced Ibrahim Ali as the winner, garnering 35,393.  Abikar came second with a total vote of 26,769.

“Extra ballot papers were in circulation and the security of the kits were not watertight.”

“This gave my competitors ripe ground to doctor the results in his favour,” he said.

The outgoing Wajir governor Ahmed Abdullahi and his PDR counterpart Ahmed Muhumed are also set to file separate petitions against Jubilee’s Mohamed Abdi. The agents representing both leaders declined to sign the results at the county tallying center.

“They will be in for a long, long surprise,” Ahmed Abdullahi said at his residence the night following the poll day.

“This was not elections, but a looting spree that cannot go unchallenged,”Ahmed Muhumed noted.

They said they have “crude evidence” to nullify the gubernatorial result.

The Toyota Landcruiser at the Wajir Police Stations. (Kulan Post)

“In Tarbaj, for instance, the number of voters who cast for the president and the governor exceeded by 20%. How is that normal,” they said at Wajir police station where the police impounded two vehicles allegedly belonging to the former Tarbaj MP Mohamed Elmi after a tip-off from the public that the Toyota Landcruisers were carrying IEBC materials.

“We have not found any evidence of elections materials (in the vehicles),” Wajir County police boss Kipken’gtich told Kulan Post in text response.