Embakasi East MP Paul Ongili famously known as Babu Owino has said he would be a cabinet secretary if Raila Odinga won the 2022 presidential bid.
Babu noted that he could have been either the Cabinet Secretary for Interior or Education.
While speaking in a documentary by NTV dubbed ‘How Raila Lost’, Babu revealed that since Azimio lost the presidential elections, there were days he could not sleep well and was posing several questions on how the polls could have gone wrong for Azimio.
“Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and ask myself what really happened. I knew I would not be sitting in this office had Raila won. I would be serving Kenyans as a Cabinet Secretary for education or interior. But look at me now,” he stated.
According to the Embakasi East MP, nullification of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) by all three of Kenya’s top courts in March 2022 set the tone for Azimio’s defeat.
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Furthermore, Babu revealed that he reached out to former Interior Principal Secretary (PS) Karanja Kibicho so that Chebukati could be arrested for allegedly altering the outcome of the elections.
According to him, this was a plot to get IEBC’s vice chairperson Juliana Cherera to announce Raila as the winner.
“There’s a day I called Kibicho and I told him the way things are moving, we need to act very fast, so he asked me what to do. I told him that we need to arrest Chebukati immediately for bungling elections. Do you know what he told me? He told me to stop triggering protests…I’m telling you the truth, this man was supposed to be ours, but what is happening? I told him that it is you to arrest Chebukati for bungling elections then Cherera to announce Baba as the winner or we go for a rerun,” he said.
Nonetheless, the expose by NTV has given a blow-by-blow account of close allies on why they feel Raila Odinga lost the presidential bid.
