{"id":68464,"date":"2022-09-16T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/azimio-candidates-were-rigged-out-in-favour-of-uda-raila"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:36:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:36:51","slug":"azimio-candidates-were-rigged-out-in-favour-of-uda-raila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/azimio-candidates-were-rigged-out-in-favour-of-uda-raila","title":{"rendered":"Azimio candidates were rigged out in favour of UDA – Raila"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Azimio leader Raila Odinga now claims rigging in the August 9 general election did not just happen at the presidential level.<\/p>\n

He says Azimio candidates were rigged out in favour of UDA candidates in the elections of the lower seats.<\/p>\n

“At the presidential level, it is not possible to tell whether we had elections at all. But even at the lower level of polls, I believe that a number of our people were rigged out to pave way for a UDA majority and during election petition, this should have been proved to be the case,” Raila said.<\/p>\n

He spoke on Friday during a meeting of Azimio leaders in Machakos.<\/p>\n

The meeting was called for the Azimio camp to strategise on how to run its affairs in Parliament.<\/p>\n

Raila said the IEBC has been captured and is laced with dysfunction and incompetence.<\/p>\n

The ODM leader continued his scathing criticism of the Supreme Court judges saying they are full of attitude, thuggery and cynicism.<\/p>\n

“The words that the Chief Justice used against us have never been used in our courts even in the dark days of single-party rule and state capture of the Judiciary,” Raila said.<\/p>\n

“The Chief Justice described our case presented by the country’s finest legal minds as no more than hot air, a wild goose chase, incredible and hearsay evidence.”<\/p>\n

Raila said through experience, that whenever judges resort to using nonjudicial language, it is because of a disturbed conscience and “evidence of a court that sold its soul.”<\/p>\n

“We have been here before, we have come from a Judiciary that invested in threats and humiliation of litigants and advocates so that the country will not question them,” Raila said.<\/p>\n

Following the court’s decision to uphold President William Ruto’s win on September 9, the ODM leader said he did not agree with the verdict but he respects it.<\/p>\n

On Thursday while in Mombasa, Raila said he will wait for the court to deliver its full reasoned judgment to know exactly why they made the “despicable judgment.”<\/p>\n

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