Raila faulted for claiming he won elections

When will  RAO wake up from his day dream about the Elections? The game is long over and gone but the boy keeps on singing he won, he won, he won, .....give the dog a bone!  




 
Prime Minister Raila Odinga on a campaign trail at a matatu stage in Nyeri Town in January 2013 . The Kikuyu Council of Elders has asked the PM to desist from making public utterances of the petition he has filed at the Supreme Court challenging the presidential election outcome which declared Mr Uhuru Kenyatta of the Jubilee Alliance the winner.   NATION MEDIA GROUP 

By SAMUEL KARANJA samkache@gmail.com, Wednesday, March 20   2013 

 

The Kikuyu Council of Elders has condemned Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord) presidential candidate and Prime Minister Raila Odinga for declaring that he won the presidential elections.

The elders at the same time asked the PM to desist from making public utterances of the petition he has filed at the Supreme Court challenging the presidential election outcome which declared Mr Uhuru Kenyatta of the Jubilee Alliance the winner.

Led by their chairman Mr Wachira Kiago, the elders said it was ‘disrespectful’ of the PM to blatantly tell a public rally at the Coast that he won the elections yet the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) had declared Mr Kenyatta the winner.

“To even dare to declare himself the winner of the march 4 election with figures that only he himself knows where he cooked them from and to go even further to call the IEBC " Tume ya Ukora"(corrupt commission) is in our view a show of total disrespect and disregard for the law,” said Mr Kiago.

Mr Odinga is on record to have told his supporters at Changamwe on Monday this week that he won the just concluded presidential election with 5.7 million votes against Mr Kenyatta’s 4.5 million votes.

However, the results announced by IEBC showed that Mr Odinga got 5,340,546 to Mr Kenyatta’s 6,173,433. The PM has so far filed a petition at the Supreme Court seeking to overturn the results.

Mr Kiago told Mr Odinga that as much as he had the right to go to court, he must wait for the Supreme Court to make a ruling and avoid making inflammatory statements likely to cause tension amongst Kenyans or influence the judges.

“As a council, we have no objection to the right of any citizen of this country to seek legal redress in our courts of law. However, we strongly believe that once the person exercises this right to go to court, he is then required to wait for the matter to be heard and determined without making utterances that are only likely to cause tension and that are also meant to influence or give pressure to our judges to rule one way or the other,” said the elder.

Mr Kiago continued “We would like to remind Mr Odinga that this country is much more important and much bigger than him”.

The elders also asked the PM to respect the voice of those who voted for Mr Kenyatta whom they said had continued to express restraint at this tense moment and were respectfully waiting for the court’s ruling.

They also asked the Cord flag bearer to show respect for the IEBC and also asked Kenyans to ‘ignore’ politicians, civil societies and western influences.

“We must all refuse to be used by these evil forces both from within and without our borders because at the end of the day, Kenya belongs to Kenyans and we must be left to determine our destiny,” said Mr Kiago.