ODM leader Raila Odinga may have secretly reached out to President Uhuru Kenyatta before his mock swearing-in ceremony at Uhuru Park, controversial lawyer Miguna Miguna has claimed.
In an interview with Citizen TV on Wednesday, Miguna claimed that Mr Odinga was not prepared for the swearing-in ceremony, adding that he arrived late at the venue and was non committal.
“Raila did not want to come to the event at Uhuru Park and he only came at 3pm, when he feared that I would take the crowd at venue in a direction that they would not be able to control,” he said as quoted by the Nation.
According to the Canadian-based lawyer, when he arrived at the venue where the oath was to be commissioned, many things were not in order, another indication that Mr Odinga was not ready and had reached a compromise with his competitor.
“They came to the park and did not bring the chair, the oath, the platform, the emblem. In fact, had I not brought the oath, the seal, pen and emblem, he would not have been sworn in. A Bible I had used to swear him in at Karen was missing," said.
He claimed that contrary to their agreement, Raila hastily left Uhuru Park. They had agreed to have a vigil that would pile pressure on State House. He says that the fact that he was not ready to hang around, he was up to something.
“I had drafted a speech which Mr Odinga had told me to share with Dennis Onyango and Winnie Odinga. We were not to leave the park for State House but were to stay at the park and hold a carnival protest for as long as it took until Uhuru surrendered. Raila however left immediately after the event. I had to jump into Winnie’s car in order to get to Karen."
On March in 2018, exactly two months after the controversial oath, Mr Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta announced their truce at Harambee House. The move caught many people by surprise.
Since then, the two have been cordially working well. Raila was appointed African Union High Representative for Infrastructural Development in October 2018, something attributed to the Handshake.