The Azimio La Umoja-One Kenya Alliance coalition party leader Raila Odinga has made his reservations about the international community and multinationals for what he called meddling in the just concluded elections. The former Prime Minister accused them of influencing the election to ensure that he is not elected.
Mr Odinga accused the unnamed “right-wing politicians and a group international monopoly capital” of working behind the scenes to deny him a win because they had an interest in the country’s political and business landscape. He said this at the launch of a book published by Oduor Ong’wen who is the Executive Director of ODM.
“What we had was a coup d’etat. You even saw the chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission run to announce the results as some of his commissioners denounced the outcome, yet he was celebrated as a hero. They cannot allow that to happen anywhere else in Africa,” Mr Odinga said.
“The international community could not condemn Mr Chebukati’s actions because they knew what had happened. The African right-wing has always been in conspiracy with the international monopoly capital since independence and Kenyans must be prepared to further sacrifice to win this struggle,” Mr Odinga added.
The former premier spoke even as his allies make a postmortem on what exactly happened in what many saw to be his closest stab at the presidency. Some members have even traded barbs and accusations over who could have been responsible for the loss, with some even castigating close confidants of the five time aspirant for the top seat.
However, both the US and Britain have denied any kind of meddling in the election, both the US envoy to Kenya Meg Whitman and her British counterpart Jane Marriot have said that their governments never had a preferred candidate in the August 8th presidential elections.
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