Presidential Election: Fear Of Possible Outbreak Of Violence Erupts Kenya

<h4>Presidential Election&colon; Fear Of Possible Outbreak Of Violence Erupts Kenya<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>OpenLife Nigeria has gathered that there are palpable fears around major towns and cities in Kenya over possible outbreak of violence as it&&num;8217&semi;s 2022 presidential poll gets underway&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;At the moment&comma; credible information has it that Presidential Security are at William Ruto&&num;8217&semi;s Karen private Resident<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to report by REUTERS &comma;Kenya&&num;8217&semi;s Deputy President William Ruto led a tight presidential race against opposition leader Raila Odinga&comma; official results reported by media showed on Monday&comma; as an announcement from electoral authorities on the winner appeared imminent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Slow progress by the electoral commission in tallying Tuesday&&num;8217&semi;s vote have fed anxiety in East Africa&&num;8217&semi;s wealthiest country&comma; which has a recent history of violence following disputed elections&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Its announcement on Saturday of officially verified results with a little more than a quarter of votes counted&comma; the commission put Odinga in the lead with 54&percnt; and Ruto on 45&percnt;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Subsequent tallies by Kenyan media groups and Reuters&comma; however&comma; put Ruto at 51-52&percnt; and Odinga at 48&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The tallying centre where the announcement will be made s packed full with party officials who are entertained by musicians calling for calm&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Purity Njeru&comma; the electoral commission&&num;8217&semi;s head of communications&comma; said the declaration of the presidential winner would be made at 1200 GMT&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The winning candidate must get 50&percnt; of votes plus one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta&comma; who has served his two-term limit&comma; fell out with Ruto after the last election and this time endorsed Odinga for president&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ruto heads the Kenya Kwanza &lpar;Kenya First&rpar; Alliance and served as a lawmaker and minister for agriculture before becoming deputy president&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; Reuters<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;