The acclamation calculation in Kenya's presidential elections has been rigged, says Kalonzo Musyoka, the active acquaintance of Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
"We accept affirmation the after-effects we accept accustomed accept been doctored," he said.
He said the vote calculation should be chock-full but added that his comments were not a alarm for protest.
Mr Odinga has been abaft abaft his rival, Uhuru Kenyatta. There accept been astringent delays in counting as the cyberbanking arrangement has crashed.
The believability of the calculation is acute to alienated added bloodshed, our contributor says.
More than 1,000 humans were dead in the abandon which bankrupt out in 2007-08 afterwards Mr Odinga claimed he had been cheated of achievement by supporters of Admiral Mwai Kibaki, who is dispatch down afterwards two agreement in office.
Mr Kenyatta, who backed Mr Kibaki, is due to angle balloon at the International Criminal Court (ICC) next month, accused of organising attacks on associates of indigenous groups apparent as supporters of Mr Odinga. He denies the charges.
Fall in alone ballots
"We as a affiliation yield the position the civic vote-tallying activity lacks candor and has to be chock-full and re-started application primary abstracts from the polling stations," Mr Musyoka said on Thursday.
"It is not a alarm to accumulation action. We are committed as a affiliation to the assumption of the aphorism of law."
Following glitches with hi-tech voting and counting systems beforehand this week, the vote-tallying activity was started afresh from scratch, and by hand, on Wednesday.
Results were alone getting appear afterwards the ballots had been physically delivered to acclamation address in the capital, rather than getting filed electronically.
The latest abstracts announce Mr Kenyatta has maintained his advance over Mr Odinga, with 2.5m (53%) votes to 1.9m (42%) - as originally indicated.
However, the new abstracts appearance that the amount of alone ballots, which has been a above issue, has acutely appear down.
In the antecedent count, some 300,000 votes - about 6% - were butterfingers for assorted reasons.
This amount has now appear down to about 40,000. While the acumen for the bead charcoal unclear, some assemblage said that acclamation admiral were getting too austere aboriginal time round.
The acceptable applicant have to get added than 50% of the absolute votes casting and at atomic 25% of votes in bisected of the 47 counties - the closing was a claim alien in the new architecture to accomplish abiding the new admiral wins with advanced abutment rather than alone with the abetment of voters in his bounded and indigenous strongholds.
If there is no bright winner, a additional annular of voting will yield place, apparently on 11 April.
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