Former Budalangi Member of Parliament (MP) Ababu Namwamba on Monday disclosed details of how National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga intends to win the October 17 presidential election.
Speaking during a panel discussion where he represented the Jubilee side while Saboti legislator Caleb Amisi represented the NASA side, Mr Namwamba took apart the NASA strategy claiming that Mr Odinga's method has remained the same over the years.
"I have been part of this enterprise (the Opposition) and I know this enterprise perhaps more intimately than Caleb because I have been quite inside this enterprise," the former ODM Secretary General began.
Mr Namwamba was responding to a statement delivered by the North Rift NASA Chairman, David Songok, who stated that the Opposition team would physically guard the presidential votes during the repeat poll.
"Aren't these the same people who told us they had strategies like Adopt-a-Polling Station? 'They tally, we tally...' This was stuff coming out of the NASA leadership in the build up to the August 8 election.
"Raila Odinga thrives on victimhood and the mirror image, the mirage, creating impressions and then crying wolf, becoming victim so that then you can hope to rally and foment some kind of public sympathy," Namwamba revealed.
He further bashed the Opposition coalition for not living up to the expectations set when they announced they would have a parallel tallying centre during the August election.
"NASA told us that after the 2013 experience they had sealed all loopholes, they had come up with agents everywhere and assigned super marshalls to protect all polling stations.
"What we expected from that whole big hot-air talk was that as IEBC streamed their results, at the moment when NASA started becoming uncomfortable, they would tell the country, 'Wait a minute, we also have a system where we are receiving numbers from our own agents directly from the polling station and these are our numbers vis a vis IEBC,' but they never did that, the former Budalangi MP noted.
He added that during the Supreme Court proceedings, NASA did not present figures that could be confirmed either through statistics or empirically.
In defence of the NASA coalition, Mr Amisi stated that they were caught off-guard during the August polls but they are better prepared this time round.
"What NASA has realised is we left this exercise to the IEBC thinking they will do a good job but now we have realised that there are thieves around us. The Jubilee people are hell-bent on ensuring they win this election one way or another but our system is there and it is working," Mr Amisi defended.
Namwamba conveyed that the Jubilee party had set up 47 campaign leaders in every county and are confident the President will be re-elected.
"We are super prepared we are only going to tighten things in our regions, I have just taken over Busia county and Salim Mvurya is doing well in Kwale. We have replicated this model in all 47 counties," the former legislator told KTN News.
