Raila Odinga has issued a statement concerning todayโs Supreme Court ruling. The NASA leader said this from Tanzania:
We in NASA had repeatedly declared before this Supreme Court ruling today that we consider this government to be illegitimate and do not recognize it. This position has not been changed by the Court ruling, which did not come as a surprise. It was a decision taken under duress. We do not condemn the Court, we sympathize with it.
The Court today met under severely constrained circumstances, having failed to raise a quorum over serious security concerns following the shooting and wounding of the Deputy Chief Justiceโs driver/bodyguard before a crucial pre-October 26th election hearing. As such, the Courtโs decision today could not possibly legitimize an illegitimate government whose president had publicly accused the Court of having carried out a โcoupโ by annulling his election and threatened to โfixโ the justices once he was back in power.
Salim Lone, Adviser,
NASA flagbearer Raila Odinga
