Radicals within the Orange Democratic Movement party had insisted that their leader Raila Odinga be sworn in after the disputed 2007 presidential elections. In his new autobiography, Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi reveals that there was immense pressure from their supporters for a parallel swearing in. I never got to know the name of this judge or who in the military had been contacted,” Mudavadi reveals in Soaring Above the Storms of Passion. Mudavadi, who was Raila's running mate during the elections, further divulges that he was among those opposed to the swearing in because Kenya would have erupted in civil war. We were now on the verge of sinking the country into a civil bloodbath,” Mudavadi reveals.

Source: The Star December 05, 2019 02:03 UTC