[Wajir Governor Ahmed Abdullahi speaking to residents at the Wajir Baraza Park. A candidate is seeking to nullify the county's results for the top post] (the-star.co.ke]A senator loser has filed a petition seeking to nullify the results of the Wajir governor-elect and senator-elect claiming that the election was not free and fair.
Mr Adow Mohammed Abikar filed the petition to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) seeking a recount of the votes.
Mr Abikar who ran on a Kanu ticket noted that the Wajir governorship and senatorial results were manipulated claiming that he was the outright winner.
Speaking to the press, Mr Abikar said the results of the Wajir governor-elect and senator-elect does not reflect the will of Wajir voters.
He said that he has evidence adding that his agents were denied access to a number of polling centres and there was no security for ballot papers, and extra ballots were in circulation.
“This gave my competitors ripe ground to doctor the results in his [Ali's] favour. We refuse to be party to the fictitious poll results.”
“The results declared by the IEBC show that I lost, narrowly, to Abdullahi Ibrahim Ali of Jubilee Party. Yet, this was a sham and stolen election. A recount, proper audit of the ballot and forms 34A would bring the outcome as desired by the people of Wajir,” said Mr Abikar who was with hundreds of Wajir residents.
Ali garnered 35,393 votes while Abikar came second with 26,769. Others in the race were Abdirahman Adan of ODM who got 19,096 votes, ANC's Hussein Abdi who had 16,745 votes, EFP's Warsame Hussein who got 946 votes and Abdia Hassan who had 884 votes.