ODM leader Raila Odinga has laid bare fresh details about the happenings that preceded his 2018 truce with President Uhuru Kenyatta.
In an exclusive interview with Citizen TV, Raila revealed that the first meeting, where no solution was arrived at, was an exclusive meeting between him and Uhuru.
He revealed that the two of them even drove themselves to the meeting venue, each driving his own car, a meeting where no major discussion happened.
"The first meeting we held, the president came there driving himself, I too drove myself to the venue," the former Prime Minister said at his Opoda Farm home in Bondo.
He revealed that in the meeting, they spent 13 hours doing nothing other than drinking water, adding that others were kept out and only those bringing the water were allowed in.
"The first meeting took 13 hours and involved taking a lot of water. We drove ourselves and were just the two of us. The only person allowed was the person bringing water," he said.
He revealed that it was only during the second meeting that they opened up to each other and began discussions, before allowing each other to bring in one ally to the next meeting.
The talks culminated in the March 9 handshake, where the two, formerly sworn political rivals, shelved their political enmity.