Uhuru should have been honest with Raila over the 2022 elections
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ODM MP Caleb Amisi claims William Ruto floored Raila Odinga in the August 2022 elections despite having the backing of Former President Uhuru Kenyatta
ODM MP Caleb Amisi claims William Ruto floored Raila Odinga in the August 2022 elections despite having the backing of Former President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Saboti MP Caleb Amasi has revealed why ODM leader Raila Odinga failed to win elections despite him enjoying the support of former president Uhuru Kenyatta.
The ODM MP in a documentary by Evans Sikolia titled “The Game of Might and Mind.” asserted that Raila never had the backing of the deep state as it was widely believed.
The ODM MP, President William Ruto defeated the former prime minister because the former had the money, the deep state, and the energy.
“William Ruto simply had the money, the deep state, and the energy. You can’t defeat such a candidate,” Amisi said. While dismissing the earlier perceptions that Raila had the deep state at his disposal during the campaigns, Amisi argued that Ruto had already managed to get the ‘real deep state’ support.
“The deep state had been taken by William Ruto a long time ago; the deep state that was with the handshake was just a shell of a deep state. The real deep had gone,” he stated. According to the ODM lawmaker, Uhuru should have informed the former prime minister early enough that he had no state machinery to help Raila win the 2022 elections.
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“Uhuru was not honest enough that the deep state had gone. On the step of Harambee House when he was greeting Baba’s hand, I wish Uhuru whispered to Raila and said, by the way, I have no deep state,” he noted.
Given that Odinga was a long-term opposition leader who enjoyed strong support among the country’s marginalized and disenchanted communities, he might have expected to win the election at a canter after receiving the backing of President Uhuru Kenyatta.
After all, the “handshake” between the two leaders appeared to have removed one of the main barriers to Odinga winning a general election, namely the state machinery that he and his supporters have consistently argued has been used to lock him out of power.
Yet despite the Azimio coalition bringing together the sitting president and the country’s most powerful opposition leader, Odinga did not seem to be running away with the election.
Many voters were disenchanted with the handshake and the prospects of an Odinga/Kenyatta alliance dwindling former prime minister’s prospect of becoming Kenya’s 5th president.
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