NASA leader Raila Odinga alongside co-principals, address the press, September 22, 2017. [Photo|ODM]NASA leader Raila Odinga, now says President Uhuru Kenyatta, has gone berserk.He said, ever since the Supreme Court declared Kenyatta’s 'so-called' victory in the August polls as invalid, null and void, he has been on an ill-informed and extremely unfortunate war path with Kenya.Odinga indicated Kenyatta has since accused judges of staging a coup against him, and called the judges all sorts of names and openly sided with those calling for the sacking of the judges. "Uhuru has personally promised to fix the Judiciary because, in his view, there is a problem there. The problem he is referring to is the fact that the courts noticed the fraud in his so-called win and declared it invalid, null and void," he said.During a press conference at the Okoa Kenya Offices, Odinga, added: "Uhuru has since gone berserk. Like a cornered bloody-minded boxer, he is swaying on his feet, rocking the country and its institutions sudden flurry of desperate punches—but with the Judiciary as his prime target and the fear of facing opponents in free and fair contest his main reason for the rage."The sum total of these moves, Raila said, is that Uhuru Kenyatta is determined to hang on to his tarnished presidential title for as long as he can, no matter the cost and the consequences for the nation."We have watched Uhuru perform these acts for some time now and remained silent in the hope that he will sober up, mature and see the need to stop. We realize he won’t and so today, we are here to tell Uhuru Kenyatta that we will not allow him drag Kenya down the path he is hell-bent on taking," said Raila.He added that Uhuru is putting Kenya on the same path that Yaya Jameh put Gambia, Laurent Gbagbo put Ivory Coast and Blaise Compaore put Burkina Faso, by seeking to cling to power by touting fake number obtained through fraud and forgeries and a non-existent people’s mandate."If Uhuru will not stop, if he will not respect the constitution and particularly the independent Judiciary that Kenyans fought so hard to bring to fruition, Kenyans are prepared to stop him," Odinga said, Friday.
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