Ford Kenya principal and Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula revealed yesterday what he told veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga days to his mock inauguration at the iconic Uhuru Park Grounds.
Speaking to Sophia Wanuna on Sunday on prime time television, Wetangula said that he had warned Raila against making the controversial move as it would not make sense.
His opposition to the swearing in, he said, was informed by his belief that the move was unconstitutional.
''It was a divided opinion and many of us repeatedly and constantly advised Raila Odinga that there was no constitutional and legal foundation for that oath... We had told our colleague what he was going to go through was not necessary. In fact, I asked him in one of the meetings. You have taken the oath, what will happen the day after. You have taken the oath. You are the president of Kenya. Where are you going to work from? Where is your revenue collection mechanism? Where is your security apparatus to run the country? Where is your public service? Where are the instruments of power? They were not there,'' a seething Wetangula said.
Senator Wetangula's words give Kenyans an insight into the tense behind-closed-doors meetings that happened in the build-up to the controversial swearing-in.
They are in stark contradiction to what he told Kenyans before the mock inauguration as he had appeared to fully support it.