According to Ruto, Jubilee party had the numbers and that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). [Photo|Daily Nation]Deputy President William Ruto castigated numbers issued by Opposition leader Raila Odinga during an interview with CNN International.Odinga was interviewed by the renown television from his Capitol Hill offices on Friday, where he said only 3.5 million Kenyans came out to vote on Thursday.However Ruto dismissed the figures saying close to 7.5 million Kenyans came out to vote for the Jubilee Party, which he alongside President Uhuru Kenyatta are the leaders.According to Ruto, Jubilee party had the numbers and that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), was continuing with tallying of presidential election results, and would soon declare the winner as the president."We have the numbers and the IEBC will declare the winner once the process of vote tallying is over," said Ruto.The numbers have however sparked mixed reactions after IEBC released contradicting figures as well.Chairman Wafula Chebukati had said the numbers stood at 48 per cent. He later said they stood at 33.4 per cent, only for Uhuru Kenyatta's votes to exceed the voter turnout by hitting over 7 million.On Sunday evening, Chebukati said the numbers 7,447,014 million (43.04%) and that they would possibly change as tallying continued.

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