ODM Chairman John Mbadi. Photo/citizentv.co.keODM leaders will on Thursday hold peace prayers at the party’s headquarters in Nairobi as the Supreme Court prepares to begin holding sessions for the case in which NASA is challenging President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election.
Party Chairman John Mbadi at a press conference at Orange House Nairobi on Tuesday said ODM supporters in other parts of the country will on the same day hold peaceful protests to demand for justice following a ‘bungled’ August 8 election.
“We will assemble here at Orange House to pray for justice and an end to the culture of electoral theft that is taking root in our country,” he said in a statement.
“Our supporters elsewhere outside Nairobi are equally encouraged to assemble and offer prayers for justice wherever they are.”
He said the contest expected at the Supreme Court over electoral fraud is not between Uhuru and opposition leader Raila Odinga but between Uhuru and the people of Kenya whose victory was overturned on August 8.
Mbadi spoke as Raila addressed opposition supporters in Mombasa during Governor Hassan Joho’s swearing-in ceremony at the famous Mama Ngina Grounds.
He said NASA will not allow Jubilee ‘run away’ with Kenyans’ victory.
“We will exercise our sovereignty and establish the just political order that we have envisioned in the constitution that we have given ourselves,” Raila said.
“The election we concluded two weeks ago was critical to restoring faith in the vote following two successive stolen elections. It followed hard fought electoral reforms in which innocent Kenyans shed blood and lost lives. The Jubilee administration fought tooth and nail to defeat those reforms.”