Raila to Hold a Town Hall Meeting on Thursday After Withdrawing from Presidential Debate
Azimio La Umoja-One Kenya coalition party presidential candidate Raila Odinga will hold a televised town hall meeting in Nairobi on Thursday, his campaign secretariat said on Monday.
This comes after Odinga withdrew from the much-awaited Presidential Debate slated for Tuesday where he was set to face off with his main competitor Deputy President William Ruto of the UDA party.
Raila’s campaign secretariat said their candidate will not share a national podium with Ruto, who they described as a “man who has no regard for ethics, public morals, or shame.”
“That is why he has demanded that the debate not focus on corruption, integrity, ethics, and governance—the key existential questions that Kenya faces. These issues sit at the core of the Azimio campaign,” Odinga’s campaign team spokesperson Prof. Makau Mutua said in a statement on Sunday.
Mutua pointed out that any debate devoid of the above-mentioned questions would be an insult to the intelligence of Kenyans.
“That is why we do not intend to share a national podium with a person who lacks basic decency…It would be a colossal mistake to reward such a person with a national debate,” he added.
He noted that instead of a traditional debate, Odinga and his running mate Martha Karua will hold a televised town hall at Jericho Social Hall in Nairobi’s Eastlands where ordinary Kenyans will be given a chance to offer solutions to the challenges facing the country and common people.
“Our flag bearer Raila Odinga and his running mate Martha Karua will openly answer questions put to them by the people of Kenya, honestly and free from what would otherwise be nothing more than empty self-serving political theater,” Mutua stated.
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The never ending conmanship by the peoples conman! Next stop, mayhem violence hooligans & death!
Nonsense! Go tell your mother to get off the streets. Your little brains are very rutonized.
@Kipseren, you meant that your brain is that fucked???
How is Raila going to deal with poor people or those that have been labeled as having committed a crime at some point, or even those that are in prison when now we know they don’t fit in his platform? I hear he is called Baba, JaKom the Right who can only stand with the righteous. His subjective class already disqualifies him from any role if he does not even want to get close to them. I’m referencing a point of view that he cannot stand on same podium with WSR because he is supposedly so righteous! If WSR had done anything wrong why did he not go the right way? Go to courts like he knows better?
Please get your shenanigans and keep it to yourself.
If you have committed a crime, and you are poor you need to be in jail. Those in jail shoukd not be the concern of the government. They should all be taken on the back of the Tipper kokoto truck and get dumped in lake Victoria for the fish to eat them. All the UDAku thieves will be fire squadded in a public market and hang on trees for other potential thieves to see the consequences of being a thief. The same measure should be handed to wsr. We must rid our country of thieves.
I wouldn’t share the same space with this thing either
RAO understands that you don’t wrestle 🐷🐖 in a sewer lest you get infested and infected
Tuseme tu ukweli....RAO knows he can't keep up with Ruto's sharp mind. Let Martha take the bull by the horns... WSR is the man for the job; given what we have.
Why debate a fanatic thief? No wasting time debating a crook.
Sharp mind??? Maybe baby 👹
He knew he would lose in the Debate. So sad.