I Did Not Tell Supporters to Protest During Thursday's Elections, Raila Tells BBC
Opposition leader Raila Odinga has denied ever instructing his supporters to stage countrywide demonstrations during Thursday repeat presidential election.
Speaking in an interview with BBC on Tuesday, the former Prime Minister said he asked his followers to stay at home during the voting.
“We have not told people to demonstrate on polling day, we have not said that at all. We have told people to stay at home,” Odinga said in the interview.
Last week, Raila was quoted telling his supporters at the historic Kamukunji grounds in Nairobi to protest on October 26th, saying their “No reforms, No election” campaign would henceforth change to “No election on October 26th.”
On Sunday, Odinga asked supporters to resume their anti-IEBC demonstrations on Tuesday( today) and Wednesday.
Speaking in the interview, Raila accused Jubilee of pushing for the election to be conducted, regardless whether its credible or not.
“There are two forces here: Those who want to go on with the sham election, irrespective of the consequences, and those who say no, it is not right to do it,”.
He further accused Jubilee of intimidating a section of Kenyans, making reference to groups linked to the ruling party walking around in military fatigue.
“Jubilee supporters are running around with military fatigue. They are trying to militarise politics in our country. You find even women politicians wearing the military jungle fatigues, basically intimidating the electorate,” he said.
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Liar in chief!
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Liar in chief!
This guy is a nut, unless…
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This guy is a nut, unless we are victims of fake news! He has dedicated the last weeks in asking his wafuasi to demonstrate, hold it, then wait for mother of all demos! Riala is a master of mind games, I give him that!
Liar, liar! You said there…
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Liar, liar! You said there will be no elections. You said your NASA goons and political hooligans will block the poll. But now you realize all eyes are affixed on you, ICC is waiting, and you have cowed. Be real!
Fake Joshua do you keep…
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Fake Joshua do you keep track of what you say? You told your supporters to demonstrate on 10/26/2017. It is well documented. Go to youtube and you will get your videos.
Even sitting home away from…
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Even sitting home away from voting is a protest in and of itself.Protest and boycott this SHAM election but REFRAIN FROM VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY UNLESS OTHERWISE ATTACKED BY THE STATE MACHINERY.
At least he keeps his words…
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At least he keeps his words sweet enough he can eat them back at will... He has no shame...he's mental!
Its on tape RAO.If you were…
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Its on tape RAO.If you were thinking right, you would at least try to wriggle out by claiming that you were misquoted,or misunderstood...
Raila, you need to come out…
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Raila, you need to come out clean and explain yourself as to why you dropped out of the race for Presidential election and the reason behind your trip to London. As per the news your campaigns have always been funded by the Hungarian Billionare George Soros since 2007 and the totalling are two billion shillings and thats why he refused to continue funding for them and you decided to put up a pay bill# and when that didn't work you stepped down and Soros told you that you cannot beat Uhuru through a popular vote and he is also linked to the agents servitude who forced the judiciqry to nullify Uhuru's victory win. You need to stop all this chaos and let the people decide who to vote for and Kenya to move forward.
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