NASA leader Raila Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta[photo/Ebru tv]
NASA leader Raila Odinga's adviser Salim Lone have said that the country has never experienced few attendances in 54 years since independence in celebrating Kenyan’s most important day.
This is after a low turnout was recorded at during Jamhuri Day celebrations across the country.
“In some counties, including in a number of Uhuru’s strongholds, there were literally no crowds, only invited guests, journalists and policemen,” said Lone in a facebook post.
Lone noted that the issue of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s legitimacy will not go away anytime soon.
He said that President Kenyatta’s legitimacy is based on the argument that the Supreme Court in September only found flaws in the electoral process, but not in the number of who voted for him.
“This claim is of course profoundly contradicted by the Court’s actual judgement,” said lone.
He added that the hollowness of the legitimacy claim was sorely tested yesterday for the second time, when the president was speaking to a virtually empty stadium.
“Yesterday was a repeat of the paltry turnout for Uhuru in the 26 October second election, when very few of the original “8.2 million” turned out in response to NASA call to boycott that election,” said Mr. Lone.