Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi has welcomed the court of appeal ruling on the announcement of presidential election results at the constituency level.
On Friday, the court ruled that the results announced at the level will be final.
According to Kingi, the ruling will empower returning officers.
"IEBC went to court and appealed to prevent the votes from not being announced at constituency level, the court has ruled that results will be announced at the constituencies tallying centers, we shall battle on the ground," he told residents in Malindi on Friday.
He further stated that there was no room for rigging the August 8 polls.
"They will announce the results at each polling stations and later send the results to all the constituency ODM tallying centers that will be forwarded to the NASA tallying centre just to make sure that our numbers are counted," he said.
“The system worked very well during the Malindi by election we just went to the IEBC tallying centre to compare and confirm the results,’’ he added.