Kenya's electoral commission has announced that fresh presidential elections will now hold on Oct. 17.

The chairman of the electoral commission, Wafula Chebukati, issued a statement Monday saying that the new elections will be in just over forty days following the Supreme Court's ruling last week to nullify the results of the August 8 polls which gave victory to President Uhuru Kenyatta.

The court ruling said that new elections must be held within sixty days.

Kenya's Supreme Court annulled the elections saying that the commission had committed irregularities in adding up the votes cast.