Kenyans weigh in on DP Ruto and Raila Odinga Junior’s online brawl over NASA threat

By Derrick Oluoch | 6yrs ago | 2 min read

DP Ruto accused the NASA leader of using his family and supporters to cause violence The DP criticized the move by the former premier to stop the repeat elections Raila’s son took it upon himself to react to Ruto’s statements

The Deputy President and Raila Odinga’s son were involved in argument after the DP accused the NASA leader of using his family and supporters to stop elections.

Using his official Twitter handle, Ruto criticized the protests by NASA against the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and the October 26th repeat polls alleging that the opposition chief is sponsoring violence through his family and supporters.

Raila Odinga Junior, the youngest son to Hon Raila Odinga, took on the DP saying that even without the Odinga family the October 26th elections would still not take place.

This energy in Kisumu and western is paralyzing, I can tell you categorically as family even without us. There will be no election. Bank it
— Raila Junior Odinga (@Railajunior) October 21, 2017

The National Super Alliance (NASA) declared that there will be no elections on Thursday October 26th and instead they will hold a major countrywide demo on the day.

NASA leader Raila Odinga has withdrawn his candidature from the repeat polls saying that the electoral commission is not well placed at the moment to conduct a free and fair election after failing to meet its ‘irreducible minimums’ demands.

Here are some of the reactions by Kenyans on Twitter as they joijned in on the debate:

And the bank should be city bank and not Equity????????????
— Gracey love (@Graceylove1) October 21, 2017

....people wont vote you mean?,then Mr family member they should not interfere with the process....
— kiariekarori (@kiarie_kev) October 21, 2017

Obviously not thinking collective , as in not thinking of the next man or woman who may have different views opinions but still is Kenyan
— Mindset2Africa (@Mindset2Africa) October 21, 2017

I think people should stop hide and seek game let's respect our constitution and the rule of maraga
— Ndori Ndori (@NdoriNdori1) October 21, 2017

Primitive Energy! If only this energy was directed to uprooting hyacinth at the lake! But again, who cares as long as it's vava tiviim!
— Karugu Mureithi (@KaruguMureithi) October 21, 2017