Odinga urges supporters to boycott repeat presidential poll

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Raila Odinga. By World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland – Original: WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ANNUAL MEETING 2009 – Raila Amolo Odinga Second upload: http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/3488061605/, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga on Tuesday called on his supporters to stay at home and boycott the repeat presidential elections scheduled for Thursday.

Oginga told a BBC reporter: “we have not told people to protest on polling day. We have not said that at all.

“We have told people to stay away.”

Odinga’s comments contradict repeated his previous public calls for protests on voting day.

Witnesses said around 2,000 Kenyans marched towards the election board offices in the city of Kisumu on Tuesday.

Odinga is boycotting Thursday’s repeat presidential ballot.

He says the contest, against incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta, will…

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