Kibaki victory speech, Kenyatta concedes defeat, celebrations

(5 Jan 2003)

1. People gathered outside electoral commission headquarters
2. People celebrating outside electoral commission headquarters
3. Interior wide of press conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Samuel Kivuitu, Electoral Commission chairman:
"These provisional figures do give (an) indication that Honorable Mwai Kibaki is ahead of the next presidential candidate, that is honorable Uhuru Kenyatta, by a very wide margin it is not likely that the margin can be eliminated that means on the aggregate the Honorable Mwai Kibaki has majority votes he has also scored over 25 percent votes of the registered voters in seven of the eight provinces."
5. People cheering
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Samuel Kivuitu, Electoral Commission chairman:
"The electoral commission therefore declares honorable Mwai Kibaki the president of Kenya."
7. People cheering
8. Kibaki supporters dancing with flags and branches
9. Supporters dancing
10. Interior press conference
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kenyatta Uhuru, Presidential candidate for Kenyan African National Union Party:
"I accept the choice of the people and in particular now concede that Mr. Mwai Kibaki will be the third president of the republic of Kenya."
12. Cameramen
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Kenyatta Uhuru, Presidential candidate for Kenyan African National Union Party: (Question from reporter: "Do you think you'll do better next time?") "Absolutely, absolutely." (Cheers)
14. Exterior crowds in the streets
15. People dancing and blowing whistles in street
16. Exterior Kibaki's house journalists gathered
17. UPSOUND (English) Announcer:
"Members of the press, ladies and gentlemen, this is the president's day, so it's my pleasure to give you the new president of the republic of Kenya."
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan President-elect:
"For me, it's a great job, it is also a very happy occassions because it means in effect that Kenyans have given me a challenge to go ahead and fulfill all those things that I personally have been promising, and that our party has been promising."
19. Man looks on
20. Reporters and cameras
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan President-elect:
"I want to assure you the government that we are going to form in the next few days will be a government of national unity."
22. People clapping
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan President-elect:
"As soon as parliament reconvenes, bring the law that will establish the anti-corruption act. And give that authority, the anti-corruption authority, powers to prosecute whoever should be prosecuted."
24. Army ceremony to practice for the handover of power on Monday
25. Various soldiers marching in ceremony

STORYLINE:

Veteran politician Mwai Kibaki and his opposition alliance won a landslide victory in Kenyan elections on Sunday, breaking the ruling party's 39-year grip on power, independent monitors and the Electoral Commission said.

With all but 18 of 210 constituencies reporting, the 71-year-old economist, who is leader of the National Rainbow Coalition, had 63 percent of the votes, the Institute for Education in Democracy said.

Uhuru Kenyatta, the hand-picked candidate of the Kenya African National Union, or KANU, the party that has ruled this East African nation since independence from Britain in 1963, conceded defeat after receiving 30 percent of the votes.

The government-appointed Electoral Commission later officially declared Kibaki the winner though it did not release final results.


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