Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission said on Monday the country would hold a fresh presidential election on October 17

The country’s Supreme Court on Friday nullifued the result of last month’s poll won by President Uhuru Kenyatta, citing irregularities in the exercise.

“A fresh presidential election will be held on the 17th of October 2017,” the commission chairperson, Wafula Chebukati, said in a statement.