NASA leader Raila Odinga in a past address. His NASA coalition wants to hold a parallel swearing-in ceremony if the Supreme Court upholds Kenyatta's win. [Photo/Star]
The NASA coalition has said no to dialogue calls by religious leaders, accusing the clergymen of applying double standards.
Speaking on Sunday in Nairobi’s Jacaranda area, the coalition’s leaders said that the clergymen failed to raise a voice even as police officers brutally handled demonstrators during the October polls.
Raila Odinga, NASA’s coalition leader, is expected back in the country on Thursday, after a week-long tour of the USA, but that did not deter his supporters from converging to listen to their leaders.
Odinga is expected to give a detailed plan on what they will do next, even as they try opposing Kenyatta’s election.
They have indicated that they plan to resist the re-election of President Kenyatta, with four out of the 19 counties the coalition controls having passed and adopted a motion to have people’s assemblies.
“We have officially started having the people’s assemblies, and these assemblies will pass how we will instill Odinga as the next president of the country,” said Siaya Senator James Orengo.
Odinga withdrew from the October polls, which President Kenyatta won overwhelmingly.
NASA has threatened to hold a parallel swearing in of Raila Odinga should Kenyatta’s win be upheld, and religious leaders and other leaders have been calling for dialogue to solve the issues at hand.
The plan by NASA to develop people’s assemblies is seen by many as a wider scheme by the coalition to push for secession, which has been talked about in some areas.