Omtatah to Supreme Court: There Were 508,000 Ghost Voters in the Presidential Election

Activist Okiya Omtatah claims that there could have been some 508,647 ghost voters in the August 9th presidential election.

Omtatah, who is among the petitioners challenging the results of the presidential election, argues that none of the four presidential candidates attained the 50 percent plus one vote threshold to be declared winner in the first round.

While making his submissions before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Omtatah indicated that at 8.45 pm on August 9th when voting had already been closed across the country, the total number of votes cast through the KIEMS kits stood at 13,731,215.

He told the seven-judge bench that the following day on August 10th, the voter turnout mysteriously spiked to 14,239,842, a difference of 508,647 votes.

“This spike in votes is not possible if we factor in the fact that most voters had cast their votes by close of voting on 9th August 2022. The mysterious 508,647 votes that were recorded thereafter are fictitious and cannot be explained in the data presented in paragraphs 31 and 32 of the Replying Affidavit,” said Omtatah, who is the Busia Senator-elect.

He added: “From the table at paragraph 26 of the Replying Affidavit, some 1,665,412 people curiously voted between the close of polls at 1700HRs of 9th August 2022 and 2045HRs of 9th August 2022. And without disclosing the alleged polling stations involved, this data hides the total number of polling stations that were allegedly still identifying voters via KIEMS kits way beyond close of voting.”

Using a PowerPoint presentation, the petitioner illustrated to the judges why he believes that total number of votes cast, as recorded on Form 34C by the IEBC, is erroneous.

“When the total voter turnout in the table is subtracted from the rejected votes on Form 34C, the resultant figure for valid votes is 14,213,137… That is the exact figure that is registered in Form 34C, but which is erroneous because when the votes ascribed to each of the four candidates on Form 34C are added together they give a total of 14,213,027,” he said.

Omtatah argued that the conflicting figures in Form 34C were evidence that the results used to declare William Ruto as president-elect were worked backwards to achieve what he termed as ‘a desired/predetermined outcome.”

“In the circumstances, we can only conclude that these figures, which form the contents of Form 34C, are cooked. The declared percentages for the four candidates are null and void in their entirety,” he says.

He concluded that no candidate attained the required threshold of 50 percent plus one vote if the percentages are calculated using the 14,213,027 total valid votes.