He is now leader of the opposition coalition National Super Alliance (NASA). Kenya has just conducted a rerun of the 8 August 2017 presidential elections that were invalidated by the Supreme Court following copious evidence of irregularities. MPs and other politicians in Odinga’s Nyanza region had, in the run-up to election day, been threatening retaliation against the security forces. A broken electionWhat has become a broken election was doomed at the start by the almost impossible time frame given by the Supreme Court. On October 25 the Supreme Court was called upon to decide whether the new polls were being lawfully held.

Source: The Star October 27, 2017 12:45 UTC