By Ebi Kesiena
Azimio leader Raila Odinga has said that prayers will not help President William Ruto get away with what he terms as election theft.
Raila has consistently held that he won the August polls but Ruto conspired with the electoral agency to steal his victory, a claim the Supreme Court said lacked credibility.
Speaking on Wednesday, Raila maintained that the August 9 presidential election results, which he claims he won with 8.1 million votes against Ruto’s 5.9 million, were rigged.
“We have shown beyond any doubt that the elections were rigged. It doesn’t matter how many times Ruto shouts, how many times he prays. The prayer is not going to help him to get away with theft of elections,” Raila said.
Raila noted this while speaking during a press conference at Pan Afric Hotel, Nairobi.
He said that Kenyans must fight for electoral justice because people fought for a long time to bring multi party back to the country.
The former prime minister said that people who fought for multi party democracy will not surrender again.
“The issue of electoral justice is not going to die until it is properly resolved,” he affirmed.
Raila said he could not have adduced the evidence that supports his victory at the Supreme Court because the apex court stifled efforts to access poll servers.
“Other people have asked why I did not raise this issues in the Supreme Court. We are telling them that the same Supreme Court denied us access to the server.”
He urged Kenyans to wake up and defend their rights because nobody can take that away from them.
Ealier on Tuesday, Raila revealed that he was able to access the data on the polls after he hired a hacker to access the servers.
He said he enlisted the technical services of foreign hacking experts to unearth facts about the presidential tallies by the IEBC.
“I did not want to talk about the results and elections, I could have been seen to be lamenting a lot. I had to look for ethical hackers to know the truth,” Raila said.
Previously, Raila relied on an expose by an IEBC insider to lend credence to his victory claims.
The ODM boss said the data provided by the whistler blower was the actual presidential election figures.
He said the figures showed that he won the general election with a margin of 2.2 million votes.
The Azimio leader claimed that retired IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati announced different figures from the ones captured in the servers.
Chebukati rubbished the claims saying the poll outcome was validated by the Supreme Court after it threw out Raila’s evidence.
