Details emerge on intrigues inside Ruto’s last 24 hours before clinching presidency
Inside Ruto's last 24 hours before clinching the presidency
Inside Ruto’s last 24 hours before clinching the presidency
New details have emerged on what was happening in William Ruto’s residence 24 hours before IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati announced the Presidential results on August 15.
According to the Nation Newspaper, President Ruto had a powerful network ( leaked security report and a regional-based tallying system) and knew he had won hours before Chebukati announced the results.
Sources revealed that the networks Ruto had assembled within the security establishment leaked the daily situational report to him and his trusted allies, which had indicated that he was set to be declared the winner of the August 9 General Election.
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“I was at Karen on that Monday [August 15] very early in the morning and the boss [Dr. Ruto] congratulated me for my victory. I asked him how things were and he told me that this [the presidential contest] is concluded and the people of Kenya had spoken.”
” The boss had come up with a very powerful and formidable network who were informing him of what was going on. He knew of his victory through the Monday morning security report,” Nyaribari Chache MP Zaheer Jhanda said.
Benjamin Washiali, a former Member of Parliament for Mumias East, claims that on August 13, two days before the results were declared, they were confident they would win after evaluating the performance of the strongholds and the advantage he had retained from the total results.
“We noticed that President Ruto was heading for a victory from our own tallying centers. Agents had delivered results from all the polling stations and that is how we knew that it was coming home. Apart from our national tallying center, every region had its own tallying center. Ours was in Kakamega,” the former MP says.
Six hours prior to the announcement of the presidential results, Ruto is said to have gathered his allies for prayer before his aide Farouk Kibet asked everyone to proceed to Bomas of Kenya to wait for the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) leader.
However, suspicions were circulating at the time that Wafula Chebukati, the head of the election commission, was being pressured into supporting one of the presidential candidates.
At the time the Azimio camp was uneasy with Raila Odinga’s chief agent Saitabao Ole Kanchory issuing a press conference alleging that the elections had been rigged.
Ruto on the other hand had arrived at Bomas awaiting the announcement by Wafula Chebukati.
“The mood in the Azimio camp shifted from chatty to melancholic with the passing of time as reality began to sink in that their candidate had lost.
The Azimio crowd began to thin and some in the squeezed Kenya Kwanza side started taking seats on their side.” Belgut MP Nelson Koech revealed.
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