Wednesday, September 21, 2022 –An Azimio la Umoja insider has leaked the intrigues that led to another election loss for Hon. Raila Odinga.
Speaking on account of anonymity to the media on Wednesday September 21, the source said that, apart from a Raila Odinga’s close ally messing the selection of agents across the country, there were two top State officials – a Cabinet Secretary CS and Permanent Secretary PS who continued hoodwinking Azimio camp that they had already won and that everything was in control, only to turn out as a sell out at the last minute when it was too late to salvage anything.
“But on the eve of the elections, one of the top officials, a close ally of Mr Odinga, messed up the agents’ plan. It was a scenario where you have trained people, let’s say 1,500 in a constituency, then he comes and asks ‘how did you find these people? Then he gives a new list of untrained individuals,” the source recounted the unfolding.
The source also linked the red carpet at the Kenyatta International Convention Center KICC as a decoy the top State officials who had assured Raila of a win used to divert attention of Azimio supporters from controlling the tallying process.
He said they(Azimio) were being fed with misleading information from the two officials who did not sleep for two days purporting to be busy manning the affairs for Mr. Odinga.
The two unnamed State officials kept shuttling from Westlands where they had set up a sophisticated command center and the Bomas of Kenya where the National tallying exercise was taking place. They also had another center in Lavingtone.
Interestingly, they made sure nothing was taking place at the command center and when asked by any Azimio member about it, they said all was going on from the clouds. That they were monitoring the process keenly.
“We worked with a Cabinet secretary. The team from Statehouse spent time at the command centre – our office in Lavington. Two days to election, you would find the two, the CS and a PS, staying up to 3AM.
“We asked them how safe we were but they said ‘kila kitu kiko sawa (everything is okay).
“They even said we had a parallel tallying system but they never showed it to us.
“They only promised us we would win the election,” the source told Nation.Africa in a detailed report which was run on Wednesday September 21.
This assurance was believed by Mr. Odinga and his handlers who kept tweeting that the next thing is buying a suit ready for the big event.
“For me, Raila was lied to and misled by these people. When I asked him ‘Mzee, is everything okay?’ he would say ‘everything is under control.’ The PS and the CS gave Mzee false hope. We lost because of our ignorance.
“Raila tried in this election, but he was let down by his closest allies and maybe he also relaxed,” the source also added.
As a consequence, Azimio failed to have enough agents and relaxed on manning the election on pretext that government was in full control. There was no independent tallying and the two Cabinet Members who were lying to Raila left immediately Chebukati handed Ruto a victory certificate.
The two cabinet members were working for Ruto but lying to Odinga that he will be the next president.