No, IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukati did not say that there will be no re-run - iVerify Kenya

No, IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukati did not say that there will be no re-run

Misleading

A tweet from an account bearing the IEBC Chairpersons’ name Wafula Chebukati emphasizing there will be no re-run after presidential elections are announced is not from the Electoral commission chair. This is an account impersonating the IEBC Chair and has since been suspended.

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Verified Aug, 18 2022

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According to a tweet purportedly from IEBC Chair Chebukati, there will be no re-run after the presidential results are announced.

Rating Justification

The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and
established that it is fake. To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks identified the twitter account belonging to the IEBC Chairperson Wafula Chebukati. The verified account of the commissions chair did not share the purported tweets.

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