Raila`s Closest Ally Reveals Why He Lost in the August Polls
Barely two weeks after William Ruto was declared as the fifth president of Kenya, blame games are still at the top-notch in the Azimio la Umoja one Kenya Coalition Party.
Christine Juma 
This is because one of the closest Ally to Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga has come out clear to explain what transpired on the eve of the election Day.
According to the source whose identity has been withheld due to security purposes, he blamed two people namely a PS and CS stating that they all spearheaded the Odinga election loss.
The Ally added that the two top officials came with a new list of agents on the eve of the election day further disrupting the whole exercise of trained Agents that had been there before.
Agents busy at a polling station in Kisumu. PHOTO FILE
Speaking to a journalist from a media house in the country theAlly stated that he was among the county liaison officers and he worked with the Azimio Secretariat.
I was among the county liaison officers and I worked with the Azimio Secretariat. We had 57 people in charge of the election and they were to manage agents across the country. We have 47 counties, but big counties like Nairobi and Kakamega required two or three people to manage the election there.
Defending the allegation that Suna East Member of Parliament Junet Mohamed had squandered the money that was meant for agents, the Ally stated that they had a good program and money was available for agents.
Undated Photo of Suna East MP Junet Mohammed during a presser meeting.
"We had a good program for the agents, money was available for them. We had structures. Actually, for the chief agents, we employed lawyers to be the constituency and county chief agents. We had 290 lawyers as constituency chief agents and 47 lawyers as county chief agents, and we had the polling agents".
"Unlike the previous elections, this time we were more organised and we covered a lot of ground during the campaigns – more than we did in 2017. The messaging was good, and, generally, the management of the campaign was okay.
But many things transpired because it is a scenario where our candidate was working with the President. And Azimio had many parties – 26.
Initially, we had an office in Lavington, then three days to elections, we were offered another office in Westlands – the entire third floor of the office block by one of the President’s closest aides. It was the best office, with good equipment".
The source further added that on the eve of the election day one of the top officials, a close ally of the former prime minister Raila Odinga, messed up the agents’ plan.
EX Azimio La Umoja Running Mate Martha Karua and Party Leader Raila Odinga after the Election loss. PHOTO File
"It was a scenario where you have trained people, let’s say 1,500 in a constituency, then he comes and asks ‘how did you find these people?’.
Then he gives you a different list and says ‘Work with these people’, and it is hours to the election, you don’t know who they are, you don’t know where they came from, and then you are being instructed to send the letters to people who are not trained.
We messed up with the agents. He (the Odinga ally) did not misappropriate the money, because he was not handling the money for the agents, but he came with a different list and instructed us to use that list, yet we had four hours before the opening of the polling stations."
The source also noted that the agents were changed at 2 am and there was no adequate time to ensure all the logistics were in place.
"As a consequence, on election day, we did not have presidential agents in some areas, including Kisii, Kajiado, Narok, some counties in North-Eastern and Coast. How do you start calling 1,000 people to start going to those constituencies?".
Additionally, the source noted that they were working with a team from the statehouse. The team included a PS and a CS who would spend time at the command center –an office in Lavington but Two days to the election, you would find the two, the CS and a PS, staying up to 3 am.
"For me, Raila was lied to and misled by these people. When I asked him ‘Mzee, is everything okay?’ he would say ‘everything is under control.’ The PS and the CS gave Mzee false hope. We lost because of our ignorance"
