Kenya 🇰🇪 election chief fears presidential vote won't be credible

Kenya's electoral commission chief warned that he lacked faith in the possibility of Kenya delivering a free and fair presidential election next week -- and pointed to political leaders as the greatest threat to a credible vote.

Wafula Chebukati's comments come in the wake of the resignation of a senior member of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, Roselyn Akombe, over security fears and alleged partisanship on the board.

Chebukati warned that if the current political crisis is not resolved, the country risks finding itself in a situation "possibly worse" than in 2007 and 2008, when more than 1,000 people died in political violence that turned ethnic in nature.

Since the Supreme Court ruling, Kenyatta's main challenger for the presidency, opposition leader Raila Odinga, has pulled out of the rerun, saying that issues around the way the first election was run have not been resolved.

Speaking with CNN on Friday, opposition leader Odinga said his coalition did not want to "facilitate another rigging of elections" by taking part in a process in which none of the issues that led to the annulment of the first vote were resolved.

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