Osinbajo represents Buhari at Kenyatta’s inauguration

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is attending the second term inauguration of  President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi, Kenya.

Laolu Akande, presidential spokesman, said in a statement that Osinbajo would be representing President Muhammadu Buhari at the event.

According to the  statement, Osinbajo who left Abuja late Monday,  is expected back in Abuja later today.

Khadija Ibrahim, foreign affairs minister of state, is said to have accompanied him.

“Prof. Osinbajo would be joining several other Heads of State and Government from Africa and beyond who are expected at the swearing-in ceremony holding at the Kasarani Sports Complex in the country’s capital city,” the statement read.

Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IBEC) had returned Kenyatta as winner of the first poll held on August 8, before the country’s supreme court annulled the election in September.

The annulment followed a petition by opposition opponent, Raila Odinga, who came second in the election.

The supreme court nullified the election on the grounds of “illegalities and irregularities” and ordered a rerun within 60 days.

However, Kenyatta won the rerun presidential election when he scored 7,483,895 votes representing 98.26 per cent in the rerun.

Wafula Chebukati, IBEC chairman, announced that the National Super Alliance (NASA) candidate Odinga got only 0.96% of the vote despite his boycott.