President Uhuru Kenyatta and NASA leader Raila Odinga. [Photo/ citizen TV]

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NASA leader Raila Odinga’s threats to swear himself in are playing into President Uhuru Kenyatta’s game, political scientist Mutahi Ngunyi has said. Ngunyi says Raila, who lost the August 8 presidential election and boycotted a repeat poll ordered by the Supreme Court, is using the taking oath of office threat to demand for dialogue with President Kenyatta. “Raila is leaving like a jilted lover. He is demanding for dialogue from a man who is not interested in talking to him,” Mutahi Ngunyi says in his weekly analysis at the Fort Hall School of Government.Because there will be no dialogue, the renowned analyst says, Raila should go ahead swear himself in the following day.“Then, Raila should go ahead and form a government in exile, supported by a guerrilla movement.”“Because he is not above the law, he will be treated by Mungiki and their oathing habits. Or better still, I suspect Uhuru wants to take him to ICC.”All political analysts and lawyers at the school agree that the ODM leader will destroy himself if he goes ahead to take any oath at the end of the month, as he has said.  “If Raila (Odinga) takes the oath as prescribed in the constitution, he will be charged with high treason,” one analyst says at the beginning.  “If swears himself in, he will sleep in Kamiti that night,” another political expert agrees. “Whatever oath Raila takes, he will be charged,” another says.Last week, Raila said he may form a government from exile, making Kenyans to speculate that the opposition leader may go ahead and use his NASA ‘military wing’, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) as his army. “The only reason Raila will run away from Kenya and form a ‘matobe’ government in exile, is if he has become the general of a rebel movement,” an analyst at the programme argues. According to political analyst P.G, also of the Fort Hall School of Government, Uhuru — in his heart — wants Raila to swear himself in.“That is why he (President Kenyatta) has not stopped him,” he says.