Raila Odinga. Ngunyi says he has already rigged the election and that is why he is insisting on the '10 Million Strong'. [Photo: x254.co]
Political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi has discredited as a myth Raila Odinga’s statements that the opposition will garner 10 million votes in the August election.
In a piece appearing in The People Daily, Ngunyi says that Raila is beating the drums of war. This is by claiming that the government will rig the election.Ngunyi adds that the opposition leader is creating apathy towards the IEBC by claiming that the agency is the government and the government is IEBC. The tyranny of numbers conspirator says that Raila has already cooked the numbers and he is using the myth to create anarchy after the election.He says: “The point here is simple: Raila is not interested in the election. He has the results already “cooked” in his tallying centre. And he can announce them tomorrow if he wants to. To him, he won the election the day he was declared the National Super Alliance (Nasa) candidate.”Ngunyi says he is worried that Raila has already confessed he will not go to court if he loses which will lead him to the “court of public opinion. And the people will decide whether the election was stolen or not.”“If they decide that the election was stolen (which they will do anyway), then Raila will be declared the ‘People’s President’. Following this declaration, they will use the First Article of the Constitution that states “…all sovereign power rests with the people”.Ngunyi adds that Raila cannot use his parallel tallying system to declare President Uhuru Kenyatta the winner but that he will declare himself the winner, whether he wins or not.The analyst says that Raila’s “10 Million Strong Campaign” shows that the opposition flag bearer has programmed his parallel tallying centre to ‘cook’ a figure close to 10 million votes which will deceive the masses to entertain this ‘cooked’ figure.In what he calls the “Tyranny of Lies”, Ngunyi accuses Raila of working to ‘normalise’ the rigging lie because he cannot get the projected votes unless all of Central and Rift Valley went his way.He hypothesises that he can only manage 4.5 million votes with a 69 per cent voter turnout going by the trend in the last five elections.“All he wants is to get into government as President or Prime Minister. And in my considered opinion, he will force his way in. I will not be surprised if we swear him in as Prime Minister in October,” he adds.