Raila plans to opt out of repeat election over unfulfilled irreducible minimum demands

NASA Presidential flag-bearer Raila Odinga address a press conference after meeting with the Maasai community at Okoa Kenya office in Nairobi on 27/08/2017. [Photo:WILLIS AWANDU/STANDARD]

Opposition presidential candidate Raila Odinga’s planned visit to the UK and lack of interest in campaigns about two weeks to the fresh presidential election appears to indicate he may not participate in the poll after all.

Raila has said several times he will only run against President Uhuru Kenyatta if all of his “irreducible minimum” conditions presented to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) are met.