Why Raila lost the August polls
Raila lost the August polls because of the three men; Junet, Joe Mucheru, and Makau Mutua according to Azimio chief agent Ole Kanchory
Raila lost the August polls because of the three men; Junet, Joe Mucheru, and Makau Mutua according to Azimio chief agent Ole Kanchory.
Azimio chief agent in the August general elections has claimed that Raila Odinga lost the presidential races as a result of people he trusted.
Mr. Saitabao Ole Kanchory, a city lawyer, has told his boss that he lost the election because he was let down by Suna East MP Junet Mohamed, former ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru, and Prof Makau Mutua.
The three were Raila’s point men in his presidential campaigns. Junet Mohamed was Mr. Odinga’s right-hand man, while Prof Mutua was the spokesman of Mr. Odinga’s presidential campaign secretariat.
During the campaign, Mr. Mucheru was accused on several occasions by the Kenya Kwanza team, led by Dr. Ruto, of using his position to unfairly advance Mr. Odinga’s campaigns, an accusation the then-CS denied.
“We could not have lost the presidential election were it not for the three. I will tell you how they contributed to the defeat because they are the people I worked with and I respect them, but they take the highest responsibility for the loss,” said Mr. Kanchory.
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Mr. Kanchory went on to describe how the failures of the three men contributed to Mr. Odinga’s defeat when he “really needed” them.
He described Mr. Mohamed as “one man who purported to know everything and he nullified everything and anything everyone else said”.
“He ensured that he kept everyone who could have helped Baba (Mr. Odinga) at arm’s length because he wanted to be the alpha and omega of the campaigns and the agents’ management system,” said the city lawyer.
This is notwithstanding “the only person that Baba would listen to without question, was Junet”.
On the other hand, Kanchory claimed that former ICT CS Joe Mucheru was on a mission to sabotage the agent’s management system. “And he succeeded,” he claimed.
“He ensured everyone who had a role, including the people who printed basic stuff that I signed, were his people. The people who were typing the names were his people and were under instructions not to deliver.”
However, Mucheru denied the claims leveled against him, saying media and connectivity for results transmission were his only national responsibilities.
“It is on record that 99.96 percent of polling stations transmitted their election results, it is also on record there was full uninterrupted media coverage of the elections and the Supreme Court proceedings,” said Mr. Mucheru.
Prof Mutua, according to Mr. Kanchory, was “exceptionally affable” but weak.
“If I was having a drink, I would not want to have it with anyone else other than Prof Makau Mutua,” said Mr. Kanchory, who added that the day Mr. Mohamed, Mr. Mucheru, and others said Prof Mutua would be in charge of the command centre, “is the day that everything else went south”.
“In my book, I have described him as a deaf, mute, blind mouse that sees no evil, hears no evil, and says no evil and that’s the kind of guy he is. You know, everything that went wrong, he was just brushing it aside,” said Mr. Kanchory.
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