Lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi. He has dismissed NASA's rebranding as 'mere hot air'. [Photo: kenya-today.com]Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi has asked Kenyans not to be 'alarmed' by NASA's rebranding from a political coalition to a resistant movement. Abdullahi noted that 'Nasa has just changed names to National Resistance Movement'."Kenyans are being alarmed over nothing. To me, this is merely hot air and Raila Odinga's last survival tactics and attempts to stay relevant. Nothing much will come from it," Abdullahi told Citizen TV's JKL on Wednesday evening.He also rubbished NASA's civil disobedience threats saying they would achieve little."It is well in the right of Nasa to say they will boycott products of companies perceived to be associated with Jubilee. We are yet to see if that boycott of products and services will work at all," he added.On his part, lawyer and activist Harun Ndubi noted that what Nasa is pushing for is legitimate and is meant to address historical injustices like marginalization 'which is still widespread even after devolution came into being'."We have a situation where the state has glorified individuals in communities perceived as marginalised. They then use such individuals to mobilize the marginalized communities into gaining favours for the state such as votes. These outright injustices being perpetrated by a small group of the ruling elite, is what must end," said Ndubi.Ndubi was among the lawyers that were representing three Kenyan activists who had on Wednesday sought to stop Thursday's poll citing unfavourable political environment for free, fair, credible polls to take place.

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