Mudavadi to Raila: You are not being honest

By Peter Ochieng

Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi feels Azimio leader Raila Odinga is a dishonest man.

Mudavadi says Odinga is out rightly dishonest in his push to have Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) servers opened to establish 'winner' of the 20222 presidential contest.

Speaking on Saturday in Sabatia, Vihiga County, the Chief CS said Odinga is hell-bent on hood-winking Kenyans that last year's presidential polls were not free and fair.

IEBC declared William Ruto winner of the presidential contest, but Odinga claims that data from an 'IEBC whistle-blower' show that he won with over 8 million votes.

“The Azimio side took their petition to the Supreme Court and presented its evidence as stipulated under the law. In its directive the Supreme Court ordered and authorized the opening of servers to verify if what was tallied at Bomas reflected the exact results transmitted from the polling centres,” Mudavadi said.

He said that Raila's demand to have servers opened was granted a long time ago, during Supreme Court hearings.

“It is on record that both the Azimio lawyers and their Kenya Kwanza counterparts accompanied the Registrar of the Supreme Court through this exercise. Raila is forgetting that what he is asking for now was granted to him long time ago. Raila is not being honest at all. The persistence in the quest of opening the servers triggers a lot of questions. What is this they had hidden in the servers?”

He said that Odinga has proved to be an enemy of progress, by calling for protests after Ramadan in the face of bipartisan talks.

“In democracy you have to agree there is a moment you will win and there is a moment you will lose. Even for Raila, if you are a true democrat respect the will and wishes of the people of Kenya. You cannot all the time, on every election season say that something has gone wrong,” added Mudavadi.

He told Vihiga residents that President William Ruto will visit the county soon to initiate various development projects.