Political analyst Prof Mutahi Ngunyi, and Opposition leader Raila Odinga. [Photo|the-star]Political scientist Mutahi Ngunyi says that President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta has the legitimacy needed to govern the country, after winning the fresh election with 98% of the votes cast. Mr Ngunyi says that it is NASA coalition leader Raila Odinga who lacks legitimacy. The ODM boss has claimed that by abandoning the supreme court-ordered fresh elections, President Kenyatta’s win lacks legitimacy.“If (US leader Donald) Trump is president with 27% of the vote, Emmanuel Macron is (French) president with 31% of the vote, and Uhuru is president with 47% of the vote, who is more legitimate,” asks an analyst from Ngunyi’s Fort Hall School of Government. “The person who is not legitimate in our equation is you (Raila). Your politics is like a rocking chair. It keeps us busy but takes us nowhere,” the lawyer adds in a weekly YouTube analysis. The president decimated seven other presidential candidates on the ballot, including Raila, by getting more than 98% of the total votes. The political scientists also dismiss Raila formation of the national resistance movement, urging NASA principals Moses Wetangula, Kalonzo Musyoka and Musalia Mudavadi to abandon the ODM boss. Citing examples of other destructive but similar movements in Africa, they warn that the legacies of the NASA principals will be damaged if they do not run away from Raila. “Raila has misled you,” Lawyer Horio tells the NASA principals. “Without knowing it, he has converted you into members of an armed struggle. You are now homemade generals in a guerrilla movement called National Resistance Movement.”“Congratulations, you have now joined the ranks of Joseph Koni of the Lords Resistance Army and Foday Sankoh of the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone,” she adds. Mr Nyungi warns the ‘Luo Nation’ — which he claims is under siege from Raila — over Raila, saying that he has been lying to them. “He told us that he had a tallying centre. It turned to be worse than a Kariobangi cyber cafe — zero impact,” Nyungi says. “Then he told us that he had 10 million strong. But in August was only 6 million strong, and in October he had fallen to 70,000 strong. Then he told us that there will be no election in October, and there was an election,” the analyst says, adding that the NRM will not succeed.

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