NAIROBI, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's opposition leaders said Friday they were prepared to concede defeat after getting access to the servers containing the raw election results for verification and upon a review of its five-page document listing mistakes in the results which could alter the final tally.
"We are prepared to accept the results if they can open up the servers. We are quite sure the hacking of the servers took place between 12.27 p.m. on Aug. 8 until Aug. 9 at 2.30 a.m.. If they can open the servers, we are prepared to accept the results," said James Orengo, lawyer representing the National Super Alliance (NASA).
"If they can open those servers and we all look at them...we are prepared to accept the results of what is contained in those servers," Orengo said.
The lawyer who is NASA's chief agent further said the system should be availed for an audit for the sake of transparency.
"I plead for patience...the first question brought to IEBC was the news alert that the IEBC was announcing results to declare the winner...and he said he is not aware."
Orengo said the opposition used the IEBC data to verify the results and prepared a five-page document which it wants the elections body to check.
The Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chief Executive Officer Ezra Chiloba said a delay in the announcement of the final results had been caused by a series of briefings with senior diplomats and the top party leaders participating in the elections.
Chiloba said the elections body was undertaking a comprehensive process of verifying the results. The process was expected to take much longer given a series of paperwork required.
According to the electoral body, there were 283 constituencies which had sent results. The results needed some formal verification and counter-checking with the results on the IEBC databank.
"While we might get a lot of progress, we are doing the right thing given the magnitude and the nature of this process. We were still missing the 17 forms. We are now able to account for 288. We have sent the two others for further clarification because they cannot be altered," Chiloba said.
The IEBC said the final verification of the votes also required that the poll officials authenticate the source of the data before posting them.
"It is likely going to take longer. It is important to be accurate rather than rush and end up with mistakes," Chiloba said.
The chief opposition coalition's presidential agent, Musalia Mudavadi said his party had discovered mistakes from the figures coming from the field.
The results were coming from polling centers which were not initially recognized as the legal voting centers while only 29,000 forms had been received from the 40,833 centers where voting took place.
The NASA leaders said at least 11,000 forms, which is about 25 percent of the vote had not been verified.
"They should not rush to make a declaration until the parties are satisfied," Mudavadi said at a news conference at the venue of the tallying in Nairobi's Bomas Cultural Centre.
NASA further denied declaring Odinga winner and asked IEBC not to announce presidential results until all documents are received and scrutinized.
Mudavadi said they were just stating facts and that they should not be misunderstood.
"When we made our statement Thursday we knew IEBC is the one to declare results. We were stating facts, not declaring the winner," he said.
Mudavadi said they noticed some results were streaming in from non-gazetted polling stations.
"These were made clear to IEBC during our meeting," he said, and asked the commission not to rush the declaration and ensure everything it verified.
