Raila won the August polls but gave it away, an insider
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Raila won the August polls but gave it away according to his chief agent Saitabao Ole Kanchory
Raila won the August polls but gave it away according to his chief agent Saitabao Ole Kanchory.
Saitabao Ole Kanchory, the principal agent for the August 9, 2022, election for Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga, claims that the former prime minister won the election but chose to hand it over to President William Ruto.
Kanchory claims in his most recent book, “Why Baba is Not The Fifth,” that Azimio’s lack of planning and strategy cost him the election.
“Elections in Kenya are won nor lost; they’re taken. Baba gave it away. He won, yes, but he gave it away. Presidential elections are there for those who are prepared to take it. There has never been an election in Kenya in the last nearly 20 years that has been won, all of them have been taken,” said Kanchory.
Kanchory claims that the Azimio camp believed they would win the election without a fight since Uhuru Kenyatta had endorsed them.
He charged that Martha Karua, the leader of the Narc Party, and Raila had neglected their campaign staff.
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“Not once did Baba and Martha personally join our deliberations whether as national chief agents team, at the command centre or called to inquire the process,” Kanchory says.
He also said that he partly should take responsibility but argued he was the presidential candidate.
“I cannot extricate myself entirely from blame. However, I was not the candidate.
“If I had been given a bit of a free hand in terms of being allowed to carry my roles as the chief agent, I would have delivered Baba to State House,” he stated.
Kanchory further named former ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru, former Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho, and retired President Uhuru Kenyatta’s brother, Muhoho Kenyatta as people to blame for Raila’s loss.
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