Raila Will Win Presidency in Round One; ICT CS Joe Mucheru
Raila will win presidency in round One and there’s is no possibility of a re-run; ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has said.
Joe Mucheru, the Cabinet Secretary for Information and Communications Technology, now predicts that Raila will win presidency in the first round of the August 9 General Election.
While speaking on Inooro TV on Sunday night, Mucheru said Raila salvaged his earlier neck-to-neck tussle with deputy president William Ruto by nominating Martha Karua as his running mate.
“We will not require around two-vote… All indicators are that he will take it in round One. The data we have, the opinion polls available and many other factors point to that reality,” he said.
The ICT Cs castigated Ruto and his allies claiming there are plans to rig the August polls.
Mucheru noted that Raila does not need to be helped to win through rigging “and even if we wanted to, it is technically impossible to corrupt the process of picking the fifth president for the country.”
He said Ruto had exhibited panic and resorted to “insult and lie to Kenyans that government is planning to rig them out.”
The Kenya Kwanza brigade has been castigating Mucheru and his interior counterpart Fred Matiang’i at political rallies.
He lamented that there is Agriculture CS Peter Munya who is in government and is the Party of National Unity leader; CS Eugene Wamalwa (Defense) who has his Party DAP-Kenya but Ruto isn’t complaining about them.
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When it comes to complaining, they only pick on me and Interior CS Fred Matiang’i. If we should be pressurized to quit the government, the calls should be fair and addressed to all of us…In fact, Dr. Ruto should lead us out of the government since he is in government and contesting the presidency while we are in it and offering guidance and direction to Kenyans,” he said.
“They are picking on me. They write letters complaining about me where they copy them to multiple institutions including the media but they interestingly omit me from receiving a copy. It makes it very hard for me to respond to them because they treat me as befitting to read about what they are accusing me from the media,” he said.
He said if there is someone who can steal the vote better than him, “it is the Deputy President since he is my senior in government and attends meetings that are higher in influence than me.”
“Ruto is my senior in government and even attends the National Security Committee where I do not sit, is my senior in the cabinet…and should he summon me to brief him about the preparedness of the August 9 general elections like Mr. Odinga did recently, I would go and give him a true account of my ministry’s input so far, he said ”
He accused the Kenya Kwanza brigade of sensing defeat and is trying to prepare their supporters on how to reject the results, using government officers as a scapegoat.
He said he is not ashamed to declare his political stand “since being a Cabinet Secretary does not in any way take away my democratic right as a Kenyan with freedom of choice in matters of national importance.
He dared those opposed to Cabinet Secretaries campaigning for Raila Odinga to sue them.
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