First Lady casts vote in Othaya

First Lady Lucy Kibaki cast her vote Wednesday afternoon in Othaya, joining other Kenyans in the process.

She cast her vote shortly after 1pm at Munaini primary school, at the same venue President Kibaki voted about two hours earlier

Polls opened at 6am with the exercise reported as smooth and incident free across the country. The polls close at 5pm, after which the tallying process will begin.

Most of the vote results will be relayed electronically to the National Tallying Centre at the Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi speeding up the vote counting process, though the official results may be not be known until Friday.