President Uhuru Kenyatta waves at supporters at Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi, where he was declared the winner of the repeat presidential election on October 30, 2017. [Photo: nation.co.ke]Veteran journalist and 'independent' columnist Macharia Gaitho has rubbished the final presidential tally that handed President Uhuru Kenyatta a second re-election victory on Monday.Gaitho speaking to Citizen TV on Monday evening said that since he started voting in the '60s, 'I for the first time did not see the usual long queues at polling stations on October 26 wherever I went'."I refuse to believe [Wafula] Chebukati's narrative that Kenyans rush to vote in the evening and that is why there was a huge discrepancy between the confusing figures he kept on issuing from time to time during tallying," Gaitho said.When challenged about the 'independent tally' carried out by Citizen TV which had less than 250,000 difference with IEBC final figures, Gaitho argued that the station depended on Forms 34B, which could have been 'exaggerated', instead of Forms 34A."We ought to go to the root data, the forms 34As to verify the validity of forms 34Bs which Citizen TV depended on. The truth lies in Forms 34A," added the columnist who seemed to agree with NASA, which has since morphed into a resistance movement, that only 3.5 million voters came out to vote on October 26.Gaitho warned Uhuru against the thinking that elections alone, can 'solve our divide' adding that Kenyans have a serious issue as to why they ethnicize politics."We will start to solve our problems once we acknowledge them. But our major problem has been the leaders we elect blindly along foolish ethnic lines because they are that problem that can never solve itself. So, unless we see beyond them and refuse their tribal narratives, we shall continue to get the leaders we deserve because they are our national reflection," asserted Gaitho.

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