Hassan Omar's rare message to Wafula Chebukati

Former Mombasa senator Hassan Omar has joined tens of Jubilee Party affiliated lawmakers who want IEBC’s Wafula Chebukati to declare President Uhuru Kenyatta president elect.

While results for over 26 constituencies remain pending due to various reasons, various politicians are pushing Chairman Wafula Chebukati to make the final announcement.

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"Even if the entire Luo Nyanza voted for one candidate, say Ekuru Aukot, it will not affect the outcome,”

He challenged the IEBC to declare the results arguing that the Elections Act gives IEBC the mandate to declare the winner of a presidential election if un-tallied results do not affect the outcome.

"There is no crisis whatsoever. The election will be declared. People have the right to go to court and the Supreme Court will take judicial notice of the deliberate attempt by church elders and political class to ensure poll did not take place," he said.

Taking a swipe at the Supreme Court judges, Mr Omar maintained that even the CJ Maraga led team ought to be cognizant of the political situation at play in making future rulings.

"Supreme Court judges do not live in an island where they are not conscious of the fact that there are deliberate attempts to ensure elections do not take place to create a legal lacuna," he said.

Speaking in the company of Kwale Governor Salim Mvurya, former governor candidates Suleiman Shahbal and Hassan Omar (Mombasa) and Gideon Mung'aro (Kilifi), Tourism CS Najib Balala told the IEBC to use the 98 per cent vote count for Mr Kenyatta as “additional results would not change anything.”

"Ninety eight per cent of the vote has been given to Uhuru. So we want IEBC to declare Uhuru the president of Kenya," Balala said on Saturday during a media briefing in Mombasa.

He added: "If the election does not take place, then IEBC can declare nullification of those elections. If the number is 1.5 million (the approximate number of uncast votes in the four counties) and will not affect the threshold of declaring who the winner is, then the election will be declared."