Revealed! Why Uhuru support for Raila in 2022 polls flopped
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Uhuru Kenyatta fully supported Raila Odinga in the 2022 polls but didn't have control of the system as it was captured by Ruto according to Makau Mutua
Uhuru Kenyatta fully supported Raila Odinga in the 2022 polls but didn’t have control of the system as it was captured by Ruto according to Makau Mutua.
Makau Mutua, a spokesman for Azimio La Umoja One Kenya, has explained why retired President Uhuru Kenyatta supported Raila Odinga’s failed presidential run in the general election of last year.
In order to help Odinga win the State House in the general election of 2022, the “system,” according to Mutua, was not working with Kenyatta.
A few months before the election, a spokeswoman for the Azimio alliance claimed that President Kenyatta had been duped by those he had trusted to help him install his preferred successor.
“Mr. Kenyatta was betrayed by so many people around him. Although Kenyatta supported Odinga’s candidacy, I would say he didn’t have the machinery of the system,” he said.
Mutua opined that the political spilt between retired President Kenyatta and his deputy then William Ruto left Kenyatta an injured man.
He stated that the political wrangles between retired President Kenyatta and President Ruto the month before the 2022 polls soiled Odinga’s chances of victory.
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“I think what we know now is that Ruto really superintended and controlled the biggest chunk of the state and most lethal elements of the state,” Mutua said.
Mutua mentioned that the mere fact that the former prime minister failed to ‘capture’ the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, as well as the Supreme Court, drew back his chances of victory.
He said that President Ruto might have outwitted Odinga by capturing the electoral agency despite the Cherera four rooting for the latter in the push and pull within the poll body.
“The machinery of IEBC and its infrastructure was in the hands of Mr. Ruto and I think the actual powers that be within the IEBC and other fractions of the state were able to compromise the election,” the Azimio Spokesperson said.
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