Saitabao Kanchory, a former chief agent for Azimio la Umoja, has written a shocking book that reveals Raila Odinga of the ODM lost the elections on August 9, 2022.
Kanchory claimed in his book that Fred Matiang’i, the former interior cabinet secretary, had little interest in Baba’s (Raila Odinga) chances of winning the presidency.
“Like many other top officials in Kenyatta’s government, Matiang’i cared little whether Baba won or lost,” Kanchory said.
Kanchory has maintained that the results displayed at Bomas were different from the ones announced.
The lawyer, in his book Why Baba is not the 5th, says there was no single time that President William Ruto was ahead of Raila as per Bomas of the Kenya results.
“The only time William Ruto was ahead of Raila was during the last announcement made by Wafula Chebukati,” he said.
Kanchory further stated that elections in Kenya are neither won nor lost, they’re taken.
“Baba gave it away. He won, yes, but he gave it away. Presidential elections are there for those who are prepared to take it. There has never been an election in Kenya in the last nearly 20 years that has been won, all of them have been taken,” he stated.
He went ahead to reveal why the Azimio Leader lost in the August 2022 elections.
“I refer Raila’s loss as a triple tragedy because in my view he was the best president Kenya never had. I think Raila is a great man and what pains some of us is that we know he could have taken Kenya to a greater level,”Kanchory said.
Kanchory also added that most of the officials in retired President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government knew that Raila’s inner circle was a hard nut to crack.
He also said the Internal Security Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho sought to play a normal role during the campaign period up to the elections.
“The fact that these top officials, some of whom were expected to deliver a Raila presidency, were not guaranteed a place in Raila’s government meant the campaigns and the ancillary operations, like the command centre, offered the last chance to shore up their financial standing,” he says in his book.
Adding:
“The campaigns, therefore, gave them the much-needed opportunity to make money. A visitor to the office of one of the CSs was shocked to see that the CS kept his otherwise-public office under lock and key. When the CS let him into the office, it soon became clear why. This obviously highly trusted guest had to walk on stacks of cash to get to the CS’s desk.”
According to the lawyer, there was a lot of confusion among the Azimio top leaders who were in charge of the command centre.
“The confusion at the command centre had been made worse by endless infighting and internal wrangles within the Azimio family. These turf wars found their way into the sensitive issue of agents, with every Azimio strongman and woman insisting they must be the ones to provide the list of presidential agents,” Mr Kanchory noted in his book.
On August 15, 2022, IEBC Chairperson Wafula Chebukati announced Ruto as the fifth President of Kenya.
Ruto garnered 7,176,141 votes representing 50.49 per cent of the final vote, while Raila received 6,942,930 votes this 48.85 per cent.
He defeated 77-year-old Raila Odinga, once a fiery and iconic opposition leader who has lost five times.
