President Uhuru Kenyatta (Right), lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi (Centre) and Opposition leader Raila Odinga. [Photo: Nairobi News]Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi has stated an instance where the opposition leader Raila Odinga could have been Kenya's president.Odinga has vied for Kenya's top seat three times without succeeding and he is now trying for the fourth time. According to the pro-Jubilee lawyer who represented President Uhuru Kenyatta in the August 8 presidential petition, Raila would have clinched the presidency if he used non violence strategy instead of violence and ethnic mobilisation."Imagine if Hon Raila used Majatma Ghandi non violence strategy from 1982 to the present instead of violence, riots and ethnic mobilization that defined his political DNA...He would have been president of Kenya. He made his bed, let him sleep on it...," Ahmednasir stated in a twitter post, Tuesday.Mahatma Gandhi was a prominent Indian political leader who campaigned for Indian independence. He employed non-violent principles and peaceful disobedience.Gandhi was assassinated in 1948, shortly after achieving his life goal of Indian independence. In India, he is known as ‘Father of the Nation’.

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