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Raila may be lying, but overlap in IEBC and Jubilee thinking is odd

NASA flagbearer Raila Odinga

When you get onto a plane, part of the ritual is to be briefed on safety measures in the unlikely event of emergency oxygen supply dropping. In the same way, we must now start planning for elections in the unlikely eventuality that they may be delayed.

The story begins way back when the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy called for street protests to demand removal of the previous polls body. The storm had been gathering, the lynchpin according to Raila and his team being that the Isaack Hassan team manipulated the 2013 election to give President Uhuru and his deputy William Ruto underserved round-one win. They of course also dismissed as unfair the ruling by the Supreme Court confirming Isaack's verdict.

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