Kenya Kwanza leaders urge Raila to give up on supreme court case as they call for a ‘handshake’
Kenya Kwanza leaders urge Raila not to challenge presidential results at the supreme court but instead seek a ‘handshake’ with William Ruto.
Ford Kenya leader Moses Wetang’ula, one of the Kenya Kwanza leaders has called on Azimio leader Raila Odinga to pursue a handshake with President-elect William Ruto.
While speaking at a burial service in Bungoma On Friday, August 19, Wetang’ula asked Raila to seek peace and take on the opposition role.
He insisted that shaking hands would aid in bringing about peace in the nation and reaffirmed Ruto’s view that there would be no post-election power-sharing agreement with the opposition.
Additionally, the senator-elect for Bungoma advised Raila to admit defeat and give up trying to have the case heard by the Kenyan Supreme Court.
“This is not the first time you have not won an election. This is the fifth and just accept things happened the way they did, shake hands with us not to share government but to bring peace in the country.
“We will give Raila his respect as a former Prime Minister and as a man who has walked the length and breadth of our country playing politics,” he stated.
His sentiments come barely three days after Odinga, labeled Ruto’s victory as null and void.
Addressing the press at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) on Tuesday, August 16, Raila claimed that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairperson, Wafula Chebukati, contravened the law by announcing the results alone.
Raila further accused Chebukati of denying other commissioners access to the results before making them public.
Raila vowed to challenge the IEBC results and his legal team is exploring seven crucial grounds to overturn Ruto’s win at the Supreme Court.
The lawyers have been meeting in Nairobi’s Lavington area to beat next week’s Monday 2 pm deadline for filing a presidential petition.
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