President Uhuru Kenyatta and NASA leader Raila Odinga at past. [Photo/PSCU]
Jubilee Party Secretary-General Raphael Tuju has laughed off plans by the NASA coalition leader to swear himself in as the president.
NASA has said plans to swear-in Odinga as Kenya's fifth president are on course.Reports said Odinga had already dispatched invitation cards ahead of his inauguration on December 12, a day Kenyans will be celebrating Jamhuri Day, to mark 54 years of independence.The invite was posted on the coalition’s Telegram channel, communicating that the venue for the event would be communicated.Reports further indicated that leaders from the international community and across the region had also been invited.
In a brief address to supporters at Manyanja Road in Donholm Nairobi last Tuesday, Odinga who failed to recognise Uhuru Kenyatta's presidency, vowed to take the oath of office.
However, Tuju on Monday dismissed the plans, saying Odinga's swearing-in and Raila's were two different things.“I will be sworn-in as president through the People’s Assembly and get into State House on December 12. Uhuru Kenyatta is not the President of Kenya," said the former prime minister.
"Swearing in Raila as the "People's President" is not the same as swearing in Raila as the President of the Republic of Kenya and Commander in chief of the armed forces," said Tuju.