The opposition have rejected results that showed that Kenya's President have taken an early lead in the Presidential election been held, calling it "fake", and saying their own tally showed they were winning.
It can be recalled that Kenyans are electing a new president, with the contest been between 55-year-old current President Uhuru Kenyatta, a wealthy business man, and 72-year-old Raila Odinga, a former political prisoner and son of Kenya's first vice-president.
Kenyatta was leading with 55 percent of the vote and Odinga had 44 percent at 3.00 am (1am Nigerian time), the election commission website said, after nearly three-quarters of the 40,833 polling stations had reported results.
But Odinga angrily dismissed that tally as "fictitious ...fake" at a late-night press conference and said the results were a sham because they were not accompanied by scanned copies of forms that party observers in all polling stations should have signed to certify the results.
"We have our projections from our agents which show we are ahead by far," Odinga said, questioning why Kenyatta had maintained a fairly static lead since tallying began. He also linked his allegations of vote rigging to the unsolved torture and murder of a top election official days before the vote.
"We fear that this is the precise reason why Mr. Chris Msando was assassinated," Odinga said, referring to his fraud claims.