Cord leader Raila Odinga cried as he demanded to be declared the winner of the 2007 presidential elections, a witness told the ICC yesterday.
She said that on December 30, 2007, Raila addressed a press conference where he demanded that he be declared the winner.
"I saw Raila on TV when he said that if he was not declared the winner, the Mediterranean and Red Seas would be one due to blood shed in the country. He then started crying," the witness said.
She said Deputy President William Ruto slapped the late Electoral Commission of Kenya chairman Samuel Kivuitu at the KICC in Nairobi for failing to declare the results.
The claim that Ruto slapped Kivuitu on December 29, 2007, was made by a previous witness but there has been no record produced in court to substantiate the allegation.
After being shown videos of events at KICC, the witness agreed that that was December 29 but argued that the footage was not full.
"You have shown me those videos but you have not shown me where Ruto slapped Kivuitu who then said that he was born once and he will only die once," she said.
When confronted by presiding judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, the witness said she saw the fight.
She however said she could not remember the rest.
"I insist that I never read it in the newspapers and only watched it on TV on Saturday, December 29, 2007," the witness said.