NASA Maintains it Will Swear-in Raila as President

National Super Alliance (NASA) Chief Executive Officer Norman Magaya says that swearing-in Raila Odinga as President is still an option for the opposition.

In a statement on Monday after the Supreme Court upheld the reelection of President Uhuru, Magaya said that NASA has several options to explore which will be communicated "when the right time comes".

“As I have said, we have a range of options in our hands and swearing in Hon. Raila is one of our options of the table. It has been considered robustly and I can tell you that when the right time comes, the country will be informed,” said Norman Magaya.

He continued: “Jubilee will go on with what they believe is right for them to do and NASA will go with what we believe is right for us to do. We’re enjoying the best momentum of our time at the moment. We have Kenyans solemnly behind us, so the question of losing momentum not there."

Speaking to the Star, former Machakos senator Johnstone Muthama said that they will proceed to swear-in the opposition leader.

“We are going ahead with the swearing-in, as planned,” Muthama told the Star.

In a statement on behalf of Raila Odinga on Monday, his long-term advisor Salim Lone maintained that Nasa will not recognize President Uhuru despite Supreme Court verdict that upheld his reelection.

“We in NASA had repeatedly declared before this Supreme Court ruling today that we consider this government to be illegitimate and do not recognize it."

"This position has not been changed by the Court ruling, which did not come as a surprise. It was a decision taken under duress. We do not condemn the Court, we sympathize with it."

"As such, the Court’s decision today could not possibly legitimize an illegitimate government whose president had publicly accused the Court of having carried out a “coup” by annulling his election and threatened to “fix” the justices once he was back in power,” read the statement by Salim Lone.