President Uhuru Kenyatta. Photo/the-star.co.ke
President Kenyatta has thanked Kenyans for showing confidence in his administration through his re-election for a second five year term.
Uhuru was declared the winner of the highly contested August 8 elections with a total tally of 8,203,290 votes, representing 54.2 per cent of the total votes.
Nasa’s Raila Odinga, came second with 6,762,224 votes representing 44.74 per cent of the votes cast.
“Ours is just to pledge that we shall continue with the work that we have already started and rededicate ourselves even more towards serving this great nation and our people,” Uhuru said in his acceptance speech at the Bomas of Kenya on Friday night.
IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati said a total of 15,073,662 voters took part in the elections.