Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga urged his supporters to boycott Thursday’s presidential re-run election, claiming it would non live costless too fair.
“What nosotros create tomorrow: one, create non participate inward whatever agency inward the sham election, two, convince your friends, neighbours too everyone else non to participate,” he told a crowd of thousands inward Nairobi Wednesday. He called on them to “hold vigils too prayers away from polling stations, or simply remain at home.”
Kenya’s presidential election has plunged the province into political turmoil.
The resultant of the master copy August vote, won past times President Uhuru Kenyatta, was annulled past times the Supreme Court afterwards a legal challenge from Odinga, who thus withdrew from the re-run the judges ordered claiming lack of reforms at the election committee meant the vote would non live costless too fair.
After a flurry of last-minute legal challenges failed to stop the election, Odinga told his supporters non to create got part.
“Fellow Kenyans, tomorrow nosotros laid about amongst novel conclusion the battle for electoral justice,” Odinga said, declaring that to participate would live to “succumb to dictatorship”.
He called on his supporters “to resist dictatorship too to create out to restore a authorities established inward compliance amongst the constitution.”
“We must ascension to the occasion too relieve commonwealth non solely for ourselves but for all of Africa,” Odinga said.
AFP