- Raila Odinga is unusually quiet, prompting questions from quarters concerned about his whereabouts
- The former prime minister was last seen publicly on Saturday, February 15, when he spoke at a dinner fete in Addis Ababa
- Since then, nothing has been heard from him, save for foot soldiers who have been striving to speculate his standing after the AUC election defeat
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Nairobi – Kenya’s former prime minister Raila Odinga’s silence for close to a week now is unsettling some quarters.
Nothing has been heard about Raila since February 15 when he made his last public appearance.
His loyalists have however been striving to speculate about his current political standing.
Raila spoke last in Addis Ababa on the foregoing date during a dinner hosted in the Ethiopian capital after the end of the 38th African Union (AU) Summit, whose climax was the election of the African Union Commission (AUC) chairperson.
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He contested the post which was won by former Djibouti Foreign Affairs Minister Mahmoud Youssouf.
Raila trailed Mahmoud with 22 votes which he garnered in the sixth round of the General Assembly’s secret balloting.
At the dinner, he seemed upbeat despite the loss, thanking President William Ruto, who was also present, for committing wholeheartedly to his bid.
Raila told his audience that the outcome of the vote ought to be treated as a form of a win, seeming to console his supporters who had been weighed down by the election outcome.
After the dinner, nothing would be heard from the ODM boss again, at least as of Thursday, February 20.
His social media pages remained un-updated throughout the period.
ODM secretary general Edwin Sifuna hinted in a television interview that Raila was yet to return from Addis Ababa.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
