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Going by Monday's judgment upholding President-elect William Ruto's victory in the August 9 presidential election, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) should have been coming out smiling, satisfied that it had conducted a credible election.
Indeed, the Supreme Court unanimously found that the IEBC had conducted the election following the law, dismissing all the grounds of the nine petitions, which had, by and large, alleged that the IEBC had bungled the election.
The Supreme Court verdict, read by its president Chief Justice Martha Koome, to a great extent, helps IEBC chairperson Wafula Chebukati to repair some of the damage sustained when he supervised the impugned election of 2017.
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