According to him, IEBC would soon declare the winner as the president. [Photo|Eduu Kingston]Deputy President William Ruto has 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.Ruto told CNN that Jubilee party had the numbers and that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), was continuing with tallying of presidential election results.According to him, IEBC 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.He accused Odinga of issuing false numbers so as to portray bad image to the IEBC and Jubilee government.Below are the presidential vote figures by Citizen television as at Saturday 5 pm.Uhuru Kenyatta - 7,334,153Raila Odinga - 73,501Ekuru Aukot - 20,788Japheth Kaluyu - 8118Michael Mwaura - 5,879Joe Nyaga - 5,434Jirongo - 3,831Abduba Dida - 14,211
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