Kenyatta salutes Liberian President-elect George Weah

29 Décembre 2017

Nairobi, Kenya, December 29 (Infosplusgabon) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has congratulated Liberian President-elect George Weah, saying his victory was a triumph of democracy in the West African nation.

“My very warmest congratulations to President-elect George Weah,” President Kenyatta wrote on Thursday, after results showed the former footballer headed towards a landslide victory. “A serial champion in his days as a footballer, his excellence and persistence has now won him the leadership of his people.”

President Kenyatta said Kenya would stand with Liberia as it has done in the past as part of its Pan African cooperation.

The Kenyan leader’s message ignited a new debate about the disputed Presidential election in Kenya, which ended with Kenyatta running virtually unchallenged on 26 Oct. 2017.

Those challenging Kenyatta for sending a congratulatory message to the Liberian-President-elect accused him of failing to allow democracy to prevail in Kenya during the elections this year.

Kenyatta’s main challenger, Raila Odinga, said whistle-blowers have provided them access to the servers of the electoral commission’s official results of the 8 August elections, which showed the main opposition, won the vote by over one million votes against Kenyatta.

According to Kenyatta’s critics, the victory of democracy in Liberia involved the postponement of the elections to allow for reform of the electoral commission.

President Kenyatta, who is still facing a domestic challenge to his legitimacy after the 26 Oct. elections, has insisted he would not hold talks on the political crisis and said political dialogue would be held at the behest of his deputy, William Ruto, who is gearing for the 2022 elections.

FIN/INFOSPLUSGABON/OOI/GABON 2017

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