{"id":350263,"date":"2017-09-03T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=350263"},"modified":"2017-11-10T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:33:25","slug":"odinga-rejected-mahamas-advice-to-petition-court-emmanuel-akwetey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/odinga-rejected-mahamas-advice-to-petition-court-emmanuel-akwetey\/","title":{"rendered":"Odinga rejected Mahama’s advice to petition court – Emmanuel Akwetey"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kenya\u2019s opposition leader, Raila Odinga, initially ignored the repeated advice from former President John Mahama, along with former South Africa President, Thabo Mbeki, to resort to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
The Executive Director of the Institute for Democratic Governance, Dr. Emmanuel Akwetey, who was an observer during the Kenya’s August polls, revealed the Raila Odinga did not trust the former presidents\u00a0and “rather accused them of being friends or sympathisers of [the incumbent] Kenyatta.”<\/p>\n
This indication came as part of his\u00a0response to the sentiment that there were shortcomings in the international observers’ processes after\u00a0Kenya\u2019s Supreme Court annulled the result of August\u2019s presidential election after hearing Raila Odinga’s petition.<\/p>\n