Garissa Township Member of Parliament Aden Duale during a past event. [Photo/mediamaxnetwork.co.ke]
National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale has downplayed Tuesday's 'swearing-in' of opposition leader Raila Odinga at the historic Uhuru Park grounds, Nairobi.
Through his official Twitter account, Duale dismissed the event, terming it as being meant to massage the ego of the NASA leader.
"That was purely an affair of the Orange Democratic Movement. It can best be described as an ODM political rally. It has no consequence whatsoever since President Uhuru Kenyatta is legally in office," said Duale, who is also the Garissa Township Member of Parliament.
In a ceremony that was given a wide berth by his co-principals Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetang'ula, Raila was 'sworn-in' as the people’s president as thousands of his supporters watched.
"I Raila Amolo Odinga in full realisation of the high calling to assume the office of the people's president of the Republic of Kenya, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the people and the Republic of Kenya; that I will preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of Kenya, as by law established, and all other laws of the Republic as adopted by the people of Kenya; that I will protect and uphold sovereignty, integrity, and dignity of the people of Kenya. So help me God," he read an oath administered by TJ Kajwang', the Ruaraka MP.
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