NAIROBI, Kenya �� Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga will face each other in a new presidential election Oct. 17, the electoral commission said, after the Supreme Court annulled last month's vote.
Kenyatta and Odinga and their running mates will be the only candidates in the election, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission said Monday.
The Supreme Court Sept. 1 upheld the main opposition's complaint that Kenyatta's victory in the Aug. 8 vote was helped by rigging. It was the first time a court in Africa has overturned the results of a presidential election.
Odinga ran for president unsuccessfully 1997, 2007 and 2013. The Supreme Court threw out his allegations of rigging in the 2013 vote that elected Kenyatta to power. Odinga has previously described that ruling as a "travesty of justice."
Kenyatta said on Friday that while he didn't support the court's ruling on this year's election, he will respect it.
