ODM leader Raila Odinga on Thursday surprised Kenyan journalists after he openly told them that they had been lying to President Uhuru Kenyatta by reporting misleading information regarding the numbers held by the Jubilee government.
Odinga stated that newspapers have wrongly classified some of the Opposition strongholds as swing votes which has given Jubilee and its presidential candidate false hope.
“I saw the other day on the newspaper that Kajiado, Narok, Turkana, Kisii, Nyamira and even Trans Nzoia are battle zones. What battle zones? Those are formidable ODM-NASA zones and we have those numbers,” Odinga stated.
The NASA co-principal, however, encouraged the media to continue on the same path as that will ensure Jubilee sits comfortable.
“For the media, just keep lying to Jubilee that they have the numbers. They want you to massage their egos, right? Just do that but they should know, they have no numbers,” he added.
The former Prime Minister was speaking at his party's headquarters at Orange House where he received four different delegations from Kajiado, Kwale, West Pokot and Turkana.
