Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - Narc Kenya Leader Martha Karua has dismissed claims that former Prime Minister Raila Odinga won the 2007 elections and his victory stolen by the late former President Mwai Kibaki.
Speaking during an interview,
Karua insisted that Kibaki did not steal Raila’s votes in the highly contested
election.
According to Karua, even though
the Kriegler report in 2008 said it was not clear who won the election, the
electoral commission's results showed Kibaki emerged victorious.
She noted that, based on the
findings of the Kriegler report, the late president defeated Raila but by a small
margin.
"What Kriegler said is that
both sides were guilty of inflating the votes, so it wouldn't make sense to
even try to find out who won, meaning that the electoral rules had been
violated in such a big way that really you may not be able to get to the bottom
of the matter.”
“But if you're asking from the
votes Kivuitu announced, I'll tell you straight, Kibake won. And I'll tell you
also that there was a group, and Kriegler is public, anybody can read, he had a
very small margin," Karua said.
Karua also cited another
analysis by a top US professor pointing to the fact that Kibaki won the
2027 presidential election.
She added that it is unfair for
people to continue claiming Raila's votes were stolen in 2007.
"There's another group from
the US, a top professor. They also tried to remove what they saw as excessive
votes from either side, like if any polling station had above 80%.”
“Using that method to audit the
election, they still found Kibake had won by a small margin. So who is fooling
who when we keep on hearing the narrative of stolen election?" she posed.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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