The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) wants has presidential candidates who will lose to concede defeat.
IEBC commissioner Abdi Guliye says it will be good for presidential candidates to concede just like other leaders who have lost various elective positions.
“For the first time, we are seeing contestants conceding defeat for the first time in the history of elections in this country. This indicates that each of them is satisfied with the process, and we hope that the trend will continue up to the presidential results,” Commissioner Abdi Guliye said.
Guliye lauded the losers for taking the initiative to accept the outcome of the Tuesday election.
However, Commissioner Guliye said that the Commission would be ready to handle any election-related petitions that may arise from the election.
“As a Commission, we will prepare ourselves to defend our position in whatever court that we will be taken and so we cannot give that assurance but we are trying to be as open and transparent so that everybody can have confidence in the process,” he said.
He, however, exuded confidence that the cases will not be many as compared to previous elections owing to the nature of transparency and openness the Commission has adopted.
“Reasons we have gone to great lengths to make the entire process to try and make the entire process as open as possible is precisely to ensure that everybody is satisfied so that they is no need for one to go to court,” he said.