Former Prime Minister and ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga has claimed that Former President Uhuru Kenyatta was part of the plans to unite with President Ruto to cool Gen Z Protests.
Speaking at the funeral of Mzee Chirchir Masit, the father to former IEBC commissioner Irene Masit, Odinga revealed that Uhuru Kenyatta initiated the talks with President Ruto before reaching out to him.
“When the country was burning, former President Kenyatta called me and asked me to reach out to President Ruto to find a solution to the issues being raised by Gen Zs. We talked, and I told him my thoughts and how to deal with the situation.”
However, despite uniting with President William Ruto to cool the protests that brought the country to a stand still, Raila Odinga mantains that his pact with Ruto was never a coalition agreement.
“I am not in government. We never agreed with Ruto that we should have a coalition government. He requested me to help him identify people from my side to serve in his administration. I did exactly that.”
This comes after President William Ruto appointed key ODM figures into his cabinet in a bid to form an inclusive government dubbed broad based government to help solve issues raised by Gen Zs.
However, some political figures and Gen Zs have accused the former Prime Minister of sabotaging the protests aimed at bettering governance in the country and taking advantage of the protests to broker his way to power.
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Questions however remain whether ODM will continue its role to correct the government in which they are part of as opposition or the opposition will be taken up to affiliate parties in Azimio.