Azimio presidential candidate Raila Odinga has confirmed that he talked with President-elect William Ruto just before IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukati announced the results at the Bomas of Kenya.
Ruto immediately after being announced the President-elect revealed that he had a phone call with Odinga where they agreed to have a conversation irrespective of the outcome.
"Maybe I should disclose that this morning I called my opponent, Raila Odinga and we agreed regardless of the outcome of the elections, we should have a conversation.
"He had offered in his statement in Kasarani that he would be available for a handshake and I said that I will be available for us to have a cup of tea because there are areas we can agree on moving the country forward," the President-elect said.
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In an interview with BBC Africa, Odinga confirmed that he indeed talked to Ruto and agreed to meet but they have never talked since then.
"William Ruto called me before the results were announced and just greeted me and we said to ourselves at that time, because we didn’t know what was going to come out, that we would meet and talk.
"We’ve not met, neither have we talked since that time because I don’t believe that he is the president-elect. I think that I should be the president-elect. And he knows it, deep in his heart that he did not win these elections, but a beneficiary of electoral fraud," Odinga stated.
