We Know How Things Went Down - Uhuru Claims Raila Won 2022 Elections

Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has claimed that former Prime Minister Raila Odinga won the 2022 presidential election.

Speaking on Tuesday, September 22, Uhuru, who was serving as President when the election was held, said his administration and allies had done everything possible to support Raila's presidential bid.

He said the votes cast in the election were enough, in his view, to establish Raila as the rightful winner of the presidential contest.

"We did everything we could to help Raila Odinga become President of Kenya, and he was given the votes. Even today, I know that Baba won that election.

"We know how things went down and we don’t want that to happen again," he said.

Ruto was declared the winner of the August 9, 2022 presidential election after securing 7,176,141 votes against Odinga's 6,942,930.

Raila challenged the result at the Supreme Court, which unanimously upheld Ruto's victory and dismissed the petitions challenging his election.

Uhuru's relationship with Odinga became significantly closer after the two leaders publicly reconciled in the March 2018 'Handshake', following years of political rivalry. 

The two subsequently worked together on the Building Bridges Initiative before Uhuru backed Raila's presidential bid.

This comes days after Uhuru said life had become dangerous for him recently because of remarks he has made in public.

Speaking at a funeral in Kiharu Constituency on Friday, September 18, he said the media's misinterpretation of his speeches had made his life dangerous.

Uhuru added that because of that, he would have to deliver his condolence message by reading out what he had prepared, instead of speaking his mind as he had been accustomed to.

"Usually I speak off the cuff, but these days life is becoming quite dangerous for me. So I have decided, before the media goes and misinterprets my words, to read my condolences," he stated.

Uhuru cracked up the mourners after he jokingly referred to himself as 'Sponyo', colloquial for 'sponsor', a nickname given to him by President William Ruto.

"Thank you very much. With those few remarks, ni hayo machache kutoka Sponyo. We will meet again and we will continue working together," he teased as he broke into laughter. 

Uhuru was accompanied by Jubilee Presidential Aspirant Fred Matiang'i and Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro who threw light jabs at the leaders in the Kenya Kwanza government.

"Psychologists say that many of us are products of the ecosystem in which we grow up. There are many of us whose parents will never be met by the public, but the manner in which we behave and talk, the culture and ecosystem that brought us up will always be seen," Matiang'i stated.