Odinga refuses to recognise Uhuru despite Kenyan Supreme Court landmark ruling
By Kenfrey Kiberenge
OPPOSITION National Super Alliance leader Raila Odinga says today’s decision by the Kenyan Supreme Court to uphold the electoral victory of his bitter political rival, Uhuru Kenyatta was made under duress.
Odinga is quoted by the Nairobi News as saying despite the court ruling upholding the election result that President Kenyatta won by more than 95%, his political movement still considers the latter’s government as illegitimate and that NASA would not recognise it.
“We in NASA had repeatedly declared before this Supreme Court ruling today that we consider this government to be illegitimate and do not recognise it,” Odinga is quoted to have said through a statement issued by his adviser Salim Lone. “This position has not been changed by the Court ruling, which did not come as a surprise. It was a decision taken under duress. We do not condemn the Court, we sympathise with it.”
According to Nairobi News, Lone claimed the court met under severely constrained circumstances, having failed to raise a quorum over serious security concerns following the shooting and wounding of the deputy Chief Justice’s driver before a crucial pre-October 26 election hearing.
“As such, the Court’s decision today could not possibly legitimise an illegitimate government whose president had publicly accused the Court of having carried out ‘coup’ by annulling his election and threatened to ‘fix’ the justices once he was back in power,” Lone is quoted as charging.
