Returning officers have started streaming into the Bomas of Kenya national tallying centre in Nairobi, IEBC has reported.
“[They are] arriving with hard copies of the results they sent electronically,” the commission wrote on Twitter on Friday.
Chairman Wafula Chebukati can only declare the winner after the forms are scrutinised.
NASA candidate Raila pulled out of the repeat and is now heading a national resistance movement birthed from NASA.
Results started to trickle in on Friday, with early estimates of the turnout at below 35 per cent.
This is dealing a blow to Uhuru’s hopes for a decisive second-term mandate. But with nearly all followers of the Opposition leader heeding the veteran’s call for a boycott, Uhuru’s victory is not in question.
The Supreme Court annulled the August 8 election after majority judges said IEBC declared results without receiving forms 34A
Deputy CJ Philomena Mwilu, one of four who agreed with the annulment, said: “Why was IEBC unable to supply forms 34A, that were said to be 11,000 in number, four days after the election results? Why would it have been impossible to avail the copies to the petitioners?”
Earlier, the electoral commission said it had received 36,769 forms 34A and posted them on its public portal.
Chebukati said they also received 57 forms 34B
