Raila Hits Back at Wetang'ula

Opposition leader Raila Odinga has responded to Ford Kenya's Moses Wetang'ula claims that he plotted his impeachment as Senate Minority leader.

In a statement sent to newsrooms by his spokesman Dennis Onyango on Tuesday, Odinga said that Wetang’ula was being dishonest and was trying to cover up his failures as the Minority Leader by blaming him.

“Mr Wetang’ula’s sentiments are dishonest, frivolous and evasive. They are meant only to whip up emotions and sympathy over problems of his own making,” He said.

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader said he was not privy to plans by senators allied to Nasa to oust Wetang'ula.

“That kind of rejection is unprecedented and pointed to a deeprooted problem between him and his colleagues,” Onyango said in the statement.

“The senators accused Mr Wetang’ula, in his presence, of being aloof, selfish, arrogant and having the tendency to impose decisions on them under the pretext that they were directives from the Summit, which often was not the case.”

“The persistent efforts by Mr Wetang’ula to avoid the facts and blame his problems on Mr Odinga point to a personal vendetta and a refusal to face and deal with the truth,” said Onyango.

While speaking to Nation on Monday the Bungoma senator further alleged that Raila withdrew from the October 26th, 2017 repeat presidential elections without the consent of other Nasa co-principals, but Odinga and ODM have dismissed the claims as “false”.