President Uhuru Kenyatta and National Super Alliance (NASA) Leader Raila Odinga on Tuesday, engaged in a bitter war of words regarding the petition filed in the Supreme Court challenging presidential results for the recent General Election.
Speaking during the inauguration on new Bomet County Governor Joyce Laboso, Kenyatta dismissed Mr Odinga's petition stating that having the majority in the Gubernatorial, Senatorial and Parliamentary election was enough evidence to prove he (Uhuru) had clearly won.
The President further noted that Raila was "ungentlemanly, a man of riddles and a roadblock to unity and development" adding that the former Prime Minister should emulate his co-principal Isaac Ruto who had conceded defeat.
“As Jubilee we have like 27 governors, the majority, we have about 28 senators, the majority, we have 31 women representatives, we have about 170 MPs, again a majority.
“Anyway it's his [Raila's] right to go to court and we are waiting for the verdict. But he ought to be a gentleman, like his co-principal here, Isaac Rutto, so Kenya moves forward. But let him follow his constitutional right,” he noted.
Speaking in Mombasa during the inauguration of Governor Hassan Joho, the Opposition Leader noted that President Kenyatta was a "lackey of foreign powers, a computer-generated President and an inferior leader".
Odinga further announced that he would not "accept and move on" explaining that accepting the poll results as they were amounted to legitimising impunity and subversion of popular will.
"Let the agents of foreign powers exhorting us to accept and move on so that they can continue to have lackeys to do their bidding know that we will not accept inferior governance," he stated.
The Opposition leader affirmed that the Supreme Court verdict would not be final and that NASA would mobilise Kenyans across the country to fight the culture of political impunity.
"Whichever way the court rules, the petition will not of itself cure electoral impunity. It will not bring to justice those who plotted and executed the theft of our votes," Raila affirmed.
Earlier on, President Kenyatta while speaking at St Stephen's Cathedral, Nairobi, during the 39th memorial service for the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta expressed confidence that God will grant them a win in the presidential petition.
"After we are done with what is before us (presidential election petition) and God grants us victory, and I am sure he will, we will invite you," President Kenyatta told the choir.
