KENYA’S OPPOSITION LEADER AND FORMER PRESIDENT, MR RAILA ODINGA, HAS SAID HIS POLITICAL COALITION DOES NOT RECOGNISE MR WILLIAM RUTO, AS THE PRESIDENT OF KENYA AND DECLARED THE NEW KENYAN GOVERNMENT AS ILLEGITIMATE.

MR ODINGA, WHO APPEARED AT NAIROBI'S KAMUKUNJI STADIUM ALONG WITH HIS RUNNING MATE, MRS MARTHA KARUA, AND OTHER ALLIES; REPEATED CLAIMS THAT THE RESULTS WERE MANIPULATED, DECLARING THAT HE AND HIS MOVEMENT REJECT THE 2022 ELECTION RESULT TOTALLY.

THE 2022 ELECTION WAS MR ODINGA’S FIFTH ATTEMPT AT THE PRESIDENCY, BUT HE WAS BEATEN BY MR RUTO, WHO WAS DECLARED WINNER IN THE ABSENCE OF FOUR ELECTION COMMISSIONERS WHO DISSENTED AND ACCUSED THE COMMISSION CHAIRMAN OF DELIVERING WHAT THEY CALLED OPAQUE RESULTS.

BUT THE SUPREME COURT UPHELD THE CURRENT PRESIDENT’S VICTORY AND THE AFTERMATH HAS BEEN DRAMATIC WITH ACCUSATIONS AND COUNTER ACCUSATIONS FROM BOTH PARTIES WITH THE ELECTION CHIEF, MR WAFULA CHEBUKATI, CLAIMING THAT HE WAS UNDER INTENSE PRESSURE FROM UNSPECIFIED FORCES TO ANNOUNCE A DIFFERENT RESULTS.