Avoid petition sideshows, Uhuru tells Raila

[MaxShimba]

Uhuru was declared winner by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission/XINHUA-File
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NAIROBI, Kenya, – President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta says Prime Minister Raila Odinga should wait for the verdict of the Supreme Court on the presidential petition and desist from politicising the process.Speaking after touring Kenya Ports Authority facilities in Mombasa, Kenyatta said the Prime Minister's remarks were ill-timed because he has already filed a case in court.

"People need to respect courts and stop talking on issues which are before courts," said Kenyatta who added that he was ready to respect the ruling in the case.

He was responding to Odinga's remarks on Monday when the PM claimed to have won the March 4 election by 5.7 million votes against Kenyatta's 4.7 million votes.

Odinga made the claim days after he filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging the declaration by the Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) which handed the victory certificate to Kenyatta.

According to the IEBC final tally of the presidential election, Kenyatta garnered 6,173,433 votes against Odinga's 5,340,546.
The outgoing PM who was the flag bearer of the CORD coalition, says they will present evidence in court to show that the election was marred with irregularities.

CORD is an alliance that brings together the PM's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper Democratic Movement (WDM) and Trade Minister Moses Wetangula's Ford Kenya among other parties.

Citing myriad anomalies, CORD rejected the March 4 election outcome and has vowed to demonstrate to the Supreme Court many forms of malpractices and inflated figures.

According to CORD, the voter register used by the IEBC was altered as well as he electronic results transmission system compromised.

They also argue that the vote counting was marred by significant technical problems, including the complete failure of the electronic transmission system.

CORD says it has evidence of other irregularities and cases of fraud during the election, including instances where the number of valid votes cast in certain polling stations exceeded the number of registered voters.

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[MaxShimba]

RAO likes that way.... and when things goes south, he will start his "things" back to the streets and fight for his autocratic monarchy

 

[Dhuks]

Its either his way or no way, the sideshows are another way of putting pressure on judges.

 

[toxic]

UK should also stop masquerading as a President of Kenya.He's supposed to be patient,two weeks isn't that long.

 

[MaxShimba]

The matter is in the Courts and its a common etiquette to respect the Courts and desist from discussing issues which are before the courts lest it be interpreted as follows,

1. He is trying to influence or bulldoze politically the courts to rule in his favor( from evaluation of the petition -It has been established as underwhelming by well Known Lawyers like Ahmed Nassir who sits in the JSC)

2.Preparing grounds for refusing SC rulings just as he refused IEBC pronouncement of the presidential winner and with no alternative means resort to violence and hence get a share in the government (popularly known as Nusu Mkate) . Same script he used in 2007 Post election period only this time he has decided to blind Kenyans by pretending to use the Courts route.

Will this strategy work this time around ? It should be noted that in Ivory Coast where actually Raila was a failed mediator we had a similar scenario where outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo tried to cling to power and share it with with his rival Outtarra on frivolous claims that there were massive frauds in the elections which were contradicted by International Observers just as is the case we have right here in Kenya . You very well know what transpired later -violence rocked the region ,Gbagbo was then ousted and Outtarra who had been declared as the winner by electoral commission was re-instated as the President . Gbagbo is in the Hague-ICC cells as we speak. This is to say Raila and CORD/ODM should forget Nusu Mkate Kenyans and the entire world are not for the idea. We have tried ,tasted it and we know from practical point of view it is not productive.

 

[mfianchi]

Kwani Uhuru ni nani kwa sasa mpaka aanze kujifanya kama raisi,kwa sasa bado raisi ni Kibaki,PM ni Rao kwa hiyo aache mbwembwe za kujifanya raisi wakati hajaapishwa,kwa haraka aliyonayo Uhuru naona kiza mbeleni