Raila to CNN: We'll Employ Legal Means to Confront Jubilee Government [VIDEO]
National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga says that his National Resistance Movement will not employ violence, but will instead use legal and constitutional means to confront Jubilee administration if President Uhuru will be sworn in after Thursday's repeat election.
Speaking during an interview with CNN, the former Prime Minister described Thursday’s fresh presidential election a ‘sham’ and that Nasa will push for another election in 90 days.
“If the government imposes itself on the people the people have a right to self determination the people also have a right to disobey orders coming from such a government therefore we will not go for violent confrontations with the government we will go for peaceful resistance,” Raila said.
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader said that the coalition will announce to its supporters on how they will confront the government on Monday.
He termed the low voter turnout witnessed during the fresh poll as a “vote of no confidence” on President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration.
“Only 3.5 million people participated in the election, which is twenty percent of the total registered voters, that shows basically that people don’t have confidence. It is a vote of no confidence in the government of president Kenyatta and if I were him and I know that he is a democrat I would actually resign or step aside,” added Raila.
He said Nasa would be split into two factions, parliamentary wing that will consist of MPs and senators and a resistance wing. “We have our alliance, it remains a super alliance it has got branches, parliamentary wing involving members of parliament and senators, we are creating another wing; resistances movement to deal with civil disobedience and resistance, they will be unarmed, we will use legal and constitutional means to put pressure on the government,”.
He reiterated that he was ready to dialogue with President Uhuru, but not on forming a coalition government.