NASA Presidential candidate Raila Odinga’s scheduled visit to UK and US just 16 days to the repeat polls has sent mixed signals.
Questions now abound if or not he will be back in the country by October 26 for the repeat polls.
Raila is scheduled to give a lecture at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, commonly known as Chatham House in London.
Thereafter, he is expected in the US where he has a string of high profile engagements with institutions and leaders as well.
Raila and his NASA brigade have severally maintained there will be no elections if a set of 12 irreducible minimums is not addressed by the IEBC.
NASA CEO Norman Magaya in a tweet last week on Friday said: “You can’t take over the electoral commission in every aspect and chest thump why an election must be held on 26:10:17. There will be no election.”
Besides the push for reforms at the IEBC, NASA has expressed distaste with Jubilee’s move to introduce a raft of radical changes to Electoral Law.
Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen according to the Standard claimed Raila’s plan is to drop out of the race.
Murkomen who is also the Elgeyo Marakwet Senator said amendments introduced to electoral law have thwarted his bid to cause a political crisis and his only way out is dropping from the race.
A clause in the amendment to Section 86 of the Election Act on the procedure of a repeat presidential election states: “Where only one candidate remains after the withdrawal, the remaining candidate shall be declared elected forthwith as the president-elect without any elections being held.”
He also said a case lodged at the court by Pokot South MP David Pkosin and Dr Ekuru Aukot have completely thwarted Raila’s plan.
“Raila Odinga is planning to drop out of the race officially any time from now but the legal uncertainties are complicating his decision. Raila hoped that by dropping out of the race he would cause a crisis but a few cases in court are complicating matters for him,” said the Senate Majority Leader in a tweet.
Aukot’s case seeks for orders to allow him participate in repeat polls while Pkosing’s case seeks to compel the court to declare Raila’s nomination null and void over his election boycott threat which the MP describes as treasonous.
Since the polls were nullified, NASA has held just a few rallies where their call has been “no reforms, no elections.”
Jubilee on the other hand, has been on a trail of campaign in readiness for October 26 repeat polls.