Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen has said that ODM leader Raila Odinga wrongly believes President Uhuru Kenyatta will help him steal votes in the 2022 presidential election.
According to Murkomen, the famous March 2018 handshake between Uhuru and Raila brainwashed Jubilee party allies to believe that indeed the Head of State stole votes from Raila Odinga in the 2017 elections, something that the former Prime Minister believes will favor him in the 2022 presidential elections.
“Handshake brainwashed Jubilee party to believe that indeed Uhuru Kenyatta stole votes from Raila Odinga and ODM. The tragedy is that Raila Odinga now believes that Uhuru will steal votes for him next year,” Murkomen said in a Tweet on Tuesday, August 31.
In 2017, the Supreme Court under the leadership of former Chief Justice David Maraga nullified Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidential win over numerous irregularities during the election.
The court ordered a repeat of the presidential election that was later boycotted by the opposition with their supporters made to believe that the Jubilee party stole the votes.
To cool down the political temperature that economists claim was dragging back the country’s economic growth, the President and the opposition leader Raila Odinga shook hands to bury their age-old political differences.
Observers believe part of the agreement contained in the truce between Uhuru and Raila will play out in the 2022 succession politics where Uhuru will pass over the instruments of power to his handshake partner.
What’s more? The president has been meeting other key political leaders urging them to unite and support his handshake partner Raila Odinga ahead of the crucial 2022 presidential race.
But in his latest media interview at State House, the President said it is not his duty nor responsibility to tell Kenyans who they should vote for to succeed him but it is his duty to advise voters on whom is best to lead this country.
“It is my duty to remind Kenyans, that they need to look at who they vote for, and why they are voting for that person,” he said.
