Kenyans react after Raila Odinga speaks on Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election

Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto (Photo: Courtesy)

Kenyans have elicited mixed reactions after Opposition leader Raila Odinga spoke on President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election.

Some hit out at Raila on Tuesday saying that he was misled by Siaya Senator James Orengo in asking supporters to boycott the repeat presidential poll.

Others lauded the former Prime Minister indicating that he was the father of democracy in Kenya and other leaders should emulate him.

Uhuru Kenyatta was declared President-elect by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) on Monday.

He garnered 7,483,895 votes out of the 7,616,217 valid votes cast.

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Addressing the country after IEBC declared Uhuru Kenyatta winner on Monday, NASA leader Raila Odinga said it was time for his movement to begin the essential task of making elections count and democracy work in Kenya.

“We will be the people who will end electoral fraud not only in Kenya but in all of Africa and be the team that will uproot the evil culture of sham elections with pre-determined outcomes,” declared Raila.

Raila lauded his staunch supporters for boycotting the repeat poll indicating that President-elect Uhuru is a product of fraud and there is nothing like tyranny of numbers in Jubilee.

“We exposed the so-called tyranny of numbers in jubilee to be a fraud, the 8-million plus votes Uhuru claimed to have secured in August to be fiction and vote-fixing and manipulation of figures by the IEBC to be real,” said Raila.

The former Prime Minister also pointed out that since the Supreme Court annulled the August 8 presidential election, the country became deeply divided on the question of holding free, fair and credible elections.

“No society that calls itself a democracy should be divided on the need for free, fair and credible elections,” stressed Raila.