Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga broke his silence on the Nigerian number saga Monday night on live television.
Odinga weighed in on the issue for the first time in public after being put to task by renowned journalist Hussein Mohamed.
In his response, he did not confirm whether he indeed promised to call NASA principals through the said Nigerian number, saying that the number issue was immaterial as everybody knew where the swearing-in ceremony would be held.
He contended that those who failed to show up did so out of choice.
"Nigerian number or American number or Russian number, those are really immaterial. The 30th of January date was cast in stone and it was announced to all the media in the country. Every Kenyan who listens to the media or reads knew that the NASA fraternity was congregating at Uhuru at the 30th of January... Those who wanted to be there went there. Those who did not want to come did not come. I don't want to be blamed that I was going to call someone to come. Those are all excuses," Odinga said.
FORD Kenya Secretary-General and supremo Barrack Muluka and Moses Wetangula respectively had claimed that Raila was to call other NASA principals through a Nigerian number but failed to do so.
Only Raila Odinga appeared for the January 30 swearing-in at Uhuru Park.
FORD Kenya and ODM politicians have traded fire over why the NASA principals who did attend the mock swearing did not.