Kenya's Deputy Prime Abbot Uhuru Kenyatta appears to accept won the presidential acclamation by the tightest of margins, conditional after-effects indicate.
After all the votes were counted he had polled 50.03% of the vote, 4,109 votes over the beginning appropriate for absolute victory.
The official aftereffect is not accepted afore 11:00 on Saturday (08:00 GMT).
Rival applicant Raila Odinga is set to book a acknowledged claiming if he loses.
One of Mr Odinga's aides said the applicant had "no intention" of acceptance defeat.
Salim Lone told the Daily Nation newspaper: "The akin of the failures in the arrangement makes it actual difficult to accept it was a aboveboard result, and if Uhuru is declared president, Raila will go to court."
Both candidates accept complained of irregularities during the advance of the count, back Monday's election.
Technical glitches
Mr Kenyatta won 6,173,433 votes out of a absolute of 12,338,667, able-bodied advanced of the prime minister, who polled 5,340,546 - or 43.28% of the vote.
Mr Kenyatta's Jubilee Coalition affair said it was "proud and honoured for the trust" bestowed on it, abacus that it had taken a bulletin to the humans and that "we are beholden to the humans of Kenya for accepting this message".
Countries including the US and UK accept hinted that his acclamation as admiral would accept after-effects for their relations with the Nairobi government - comments which accept been absolved in Nairobi as exceptionable adopted arrest in calm matters.
Kenya's new cyberbanking voting arrangement was advised to annihilate the adventitious of vote-rigging and with it any accident of a echo of the post-poll abandon of 2007.
But the calculation has been bedeviled with abstruse glitches, including a programming absurdity that led to the amount of alone votes getting assorted by a agency of eight. By Wednesday, the cyberbanking arrangement was alone and the calculation restarted by hand.
According to Kenya's acclamation rules, the champ needs to poll added than 50% of the vote to abstain a additional annular run-off next month.
If the acclamation agency confirms that Mr Kenyatta has beyond the 50% beginning by such a attenuated margin, again Mr Odinga's admiral say he will claiming the outcome.
The prime minister's Cord accord had beforehand complained that votes from 11 constituencies were missing, in aftereffect abrogation him added than 250,000 votes short.
Both men anesthetized a additional action bare for achievement - at atomic 25% of the vote in added than bisected of the 47 counties.
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