Odinga backs down on election threat

Opposition leader Raila Odinga last week said he would take his claims that Kenya’s presidential election was rigged to the Supreme Court and vowed to protest peacefully. 'We have now decided to move to the Supreme Court and lay before the world the making of a computer-generated leadership,' the leader of the National Super Alliance coalition told journalists. A report on the The Citizen site notes that he also called for peaceful forms of protest against President Uhuru Kenyatta's victory. Odinga recalled that the rights to demonstrate, strike and carry out acts of civil disobedience were enshrined in the Constitution. 'Kenyans have no need to use violence to achieve justice,' he said.

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