President Uhuru Kenyatta was Mon declared winner of Kenya's deeply divisive election, gaining 98 pct of the vote inward the absence of his challenger Raila Odinga with fears of farther violence inward opposition strongholds.
Kenyatta hailed his crushing win final Th equally vindication of his victory inward a poll inward August that was annulled past times the Supreme Court.
And he slammed observers who questioned the legitimacy of his win inward an election that saw a turnout of alone 38.8 percent.
"This was null to a greater extent than than a revalidation of (voters') full general will," Kenyatta said inward a victory speech.
But he conceded his victory was "likely to 1 time once to a greater extent than locomote subjected to a constitutional examination through our courts", adding he would submit to such a procedure "no affair its outcomes."
Independent Electoral too Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Wafula Chebukati said Kenyatta had received 7,483,895 votes to Odinga's 73,228.
Odinga reaped less than 1 pct of the vote, a sign that the boycott he called for had held.
A total of 7,616,217 people cast ballots inward Thursday's protest-hit election.
The vote was the chaotic climax of 2 months of political drama afterwards the Supreme Court overturned Kenyatta's victory inward August 8 polls over widespread irregularities too mismanagement past times the IEBC.
Violent protests, the murder of an IEBC official too the resignation of some other who fled the province condemning a flawed process, necessitate keep seen the province lurch from crisis to crisis during the election period.
Chebukati -- who simply earlier the election had called into incertitude its credibility due to internal IEBC divisions too political interference -- said he was confident the poll had been "free, fair too credible".
- 'We don't care' -
Ahead of the announcement, safety was stepped upwards inward flashpoint areas inward the west, inward Nairobi's Mathare slum too its key trouble concern district, too also inward the coastal metropolis of Mombasa, a senior police pull source told AFP.
As the results were announced, demonstrators began burning tyres inward the western metropolis of Kisumu equally good equally inward Nairobi's Kibera slum, AFP correspondents said.
"We don't attention that he has been elected president. Why would nosotros care, nosotros did non vote," said Alex Onyango, 24, told AFP inward Kisumu, where dozens of protesters stood at a roundabout shouting: "Uhuru must go!"
Although calm has reigned for the past times 48 hours inward the country's restive due west too inward some flashpoint Nairobi slums, the annunciation was human face to fuel farther anger too protests.
At to the lowest degree nine people necessitate keep died since election twenty-four hours -- most shot past times police pull according to rights groups -- taking the decease cost since the starting fourth dimension presidential election to 49.
The Supreme Court ruling was hailed equally a jeopardy to deepen democracy, but the bickering betwixt Odinga too Kenyatta -- whose fathers were rivals earlier them -- has sharply divided a province where politics is already polarised along tribal lines.
The electrical flow political crisis is the worst since a 2007 vote sparked months of politically-driven ethnic violence that left 1,100 people dead.
- 'Politics of darkness' -
Kenyatta hailed the resilience of the nation for non giving into "the politics of darkness".
"Any other province experiencing the turns too twists of our recent electoral procedure would necessitate keep outburst asunder," he said.
Odinga was expected to address his supporters on Tuesday.
After the September 1 courtroom ruling, Kenyatta had angrily denounced the country's overstep judges equally "crooks."
He admitted Mon that the determination on whether to insist on his victory or submit to the dominion of law was "very hard too painful".
He also lashed out at Odinga for refused to accept business office inward the re-run on grounds the IEBC had failed to brand sufficient reforms to ensure the vote would non locomote flawed.
"You cannot necessitate the chance to practise a correct too thereafter abscond from the consequences of that choice," said the 56-year-old president.
Odinga called on his voters to remain away on election day. But inward the west, many blocked polling stations, leading to tearing clashes with police.
Chebukati decided Mon to abandon plans to reschedule the vote inward 25 violence-hit constituencies where voting could non accept place, estimating these would non acquit on the outcome.
- Calls for calm -
US Ambassador Robert Godec expressed concern over the recent clashes too called for "calm inward the coming days".
"Leaders too politicians should clearly too publicly reject violence too operate to proceed the peace, too brand every endeavour to ensure their supporters create then equally well," he said inward a statement.
"We are deeply concerned past times reports of excessive purpose of strength past times the police."
His words were echoed past times Britain's government minister for Africa, Rory Stewart, who said he was "deeply concerned" nearly the recent violence.
"I urge safety forces to practise maximum restraint too telephone outcry upwards on protestors who are exercising their constitutional rights to create then peacefully," he said inward a statement.
AFP