Opposition leader Raila Odinga addresses a press conference in Nairobi on August 16, 2017. [Photo: nation.co.ke]Political pressure by NASA on the seven Supreme Court judges will play a big role in determining what kind of verdict the judges will deliver in the next 14 days.Political analyst Danstan Omari has said that Nasa flag bearer Raila Odinga's warning on Wednesday to the court 'to redeem itself' was a political strategy.Raila said that as much as Nasa was going to the court, they will also be blowing trumpets and making noise."This is a political strategy. When President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto faced trials at the International Criminal Court, they used the same strategy. When lawyers were busy battling the cases at the Hague, Jubilee politicians were busy praying and dancing all over Kenya," Omari said on Friday at Citizen TV breakfast show.He added: "You could hear the judges all the way from Hague warning Jubilee political class in Kenya to leave the court do its job. The warnings only fuelled more political activity and the eventual result was the collapse of the cases."Omari noted that the same strategy was used by Jubilee to 'silence the courts' when IEBC kept losing cases to Nasa in the run up to August 8 General election."Recently when Jubilee realized that the political pressure was making IEBC lose in courts daily, the President and his deputy also became politicians and made serious attack on the judiciary. From there, the wind changed. Raila is using the same strategy.""He tells the Supreme Court that you misbehaved in 2013. So, here is a chance to redeem yourself. And he is categorical that if you fail to do so, we have the mass action option. In short, it is a double edged problem. Judges have real political pressure on them which will widely determine how the case goes," Omari stated.

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