Kenya opposition leader rejects election result as ‘null and void’

Raila Odinga's comments on poll he was declared to have lost come after some officials disown final tally

The Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga, rejected as null and void" the result of a presidential election he was declared to have lost, adding that Kenya's democracy faced a long legal crisis.

His first comments on the result came minutes after four of the seven election commissioners said on Tuesday they stood by their decision a day earlier to disown the result of the presidential poll, saying the final tallying process had been opaque".