Jubilee will beat Cord by eight million votes in 2017, says Duale

A file photo of Cord leader Raila Odinga with National Assembly Majority leader Aden Duale.
A file photo of Cord leader Raila Odinga with National Assembly Majority leader Aden Duale.

Aden Duale has claimed Jubilee Party will win the next general election by more than eight million votes.

The National Assembly Majority leader

said the new IEBC register has 14 million registered voters, with eight million from Jubilee strongholds.

He assumes all of them will vote for Jubilee alongside a handful from the opposition.

President Uhuru Kenyatta won the 2013 presidential election with 6,173,433 votes against Cord leader Raila Odinga's 5,340,546.

Duale said Raila cannot and will never rule this country "because God does not want him to."

"If God has not decided you will be Kenya’s president, you cannot force Kenyans," he said on Saturday at Likoni, Mombasa.

He added that the next poll will be a contest between those who believe and do what Kenyans want and those who only speak.

The Majority leader said Cord is marred by ethnicity, unlike Jubilee, and that its days are numbered.

"What Raila Odinga is doing in Kenya is dangerous. He has enslaved the Luo nation. Now that he has done that, he wants to export it to other communities and other regions," he said.

He said Ruto left ODM to unite Kenyans based on ideologies, not ethnicity.

The legislators' sentiments came amid claims by the opposition that Jubilee rigged the last general election.

On Friday, Raila told a Law Society of Kenya conference in Diani, Kwale county, that Jubilee did so with the help of the IEBC.

He said commissioners confessed this to him after agreeing to bow out.

Cord has been busy sealing loopholes in the fight against rigging, including successfully forcing IEBC commissioners out.

But

Duale noted Jubilee won the poll with ICC cases hanging heavy on their shoulders. He said there will be a clean sweep now that the cases were terminated.

The ICC terminated cases against President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ruto in 2014 and 2015

respectively.

On nominations, Duale noted Jubilee will seek the help of the IEBC and urged Cord to do the same.

He said Coast leaders were protecting Raila like he is a “prophet” or a “statue”- a gesture that does not exist in Jubilee and which should not be condoned.

"I cannot worship the president and his DP. I hear some people are saying if you do not worship Raila you will be defeated," he said.

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