Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary General Francis Atwoli has revealed how he deceived former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and former President Uhuru Kenyatta in the lead-up to the 2022 General Election.
Addressing the presser
yesterday, Atwoli said he always knew President William Ruto would beat Raila
but kept on cheering him on just to give him the psyche.
According to Atwoli, Ruto’s
victory had been accepted within the senior ranks of the opposing Azimio
coalition.
“In the run-up to the elections
when I was saying Ruto will not win, I was trying to energize you. In my inner
thinking the new government had already been formed and as your parent I could
not tell you that you are losing,” Atwoli stated.
“If you have children in your
house you cannot tell them there is no food. It was our work as elders to give
you more strength to keep on fighting. It was a war and we could not say we
were going to be defeated,” he added.
Atwoli added that prior to the
2022 polls, Ruto in his capacity as Deputy President had tactfully built
bridges with influential personalities within government despite being locked
out of office by his then boss, Uhuru Kenyatta.
“The former Deputy President, at
that time, was out of government. But when we went to the elections, it was as
if we had nothing. He took the government from us one year before the
elections,” he asserted.
“Uhuru was President and
Ruto managed to take his Chief of Staff Joseph Kinyua. The whole intelligence
section, William managed to get them from Uhuru and I knew that,” Atwoli
expounded.
The Kenyan DAILY POST.
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