adminwould head the African Union observer mission.
Ambassador Simbi Mubako is a member of the COMESA Committee of Elders that undertook a pre-election mission to Kenya in January to observe preparations for the presidential, parliamentary and local elections.
He leads a 20-member election observer mission.
Meanwhile, former President Chissano, who leads a 60-member AU observer mission praised the preparations put in place by Kenya’s electoral commission.
“We are relieved to find that the election preparations are complete and are spearheaded by competent officials,” Chissano said in Nairobi.
“This has given us confidence that the elections will be well conducted.”
He, however, cautioned that “things can still go wrong and so everyone should recommit every day to ensure that elections are conducted in a free and fair manner.”
Prime Minister Raila Odinga is battling for the Kenyan presidency with Mr Uhuru Kenyatta.
“If Kenyans do vote for us,” Mr Kenyatta said, “it will mean they themselves have questioned the process that has landed us at the ICC.”
Mr Kenyatta is the son of the first leader of independent Kenya and “father of the nation”, Jomo Kenyatta, who was president for a decade following independence in 1963 after his Kenyan African National Union won the first democratic elections in which all voters were allowed to participate.
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