Kileleshwa MCA Robert Alai has fired back at Raila Odinga's chief agent in the August polls Saitabao Ole Kanchory saying he was a wrong choice for the job.
In a statement shortly after Kanchory apportioned blame to three Azimio insiders over Raila's loss, Alai said Kanchory assumed the role of bouncer instead of monitoring the vote count at the Bomas of Kenya.
"You were too immature for the Chief Agent role Saitabao. You can’t clean yourself from the mess when you turned into a clueless charlatan out to play the role of a bouncer in Bomas. I saved you from GSU. You were a wrong choice," Alai said.
In a snippet of an interview set to be aired on NTV this Sunday, Kanchory said Raila and the entire Azimio team lost the presidential contest because of a section of leaders who were at the heart of Raila's campaign secretariat.
"We could not have lost these elections if not for three people, Junet Mohammed, Joe Mucheru, and Makau Mutua," Kanchory said in the documentary dubbed How Raila Lost.
Days before President William Ruto was declared winner of the August 9 presidential race on August 15, Kanchory described events at the presidential tallying centre at the Bomas of Kenya as a crime scene.
"I want to tell Kenyans that Bomas is a scene of the crime," he said after chaos erupted at Bomas over alleged irregularities in the vote verification exercise.
Kanchory claimed that some IEBC officials were colluding with their opponents to alter results and sneak in Forms 34 A, an allegation that was later dismissed by the Supreme Court as baseless.
Alai's sentiments lends credence to claims that Raila's presidential race was bungled by his own people.
The ODM leader's secretariat came under heavy criticism shortly after the polls for what critics termed as self sabotage right from the campaign stage.
Activist Boniface Mwangi claimed that he was removed from all Azimio campaign WhatsApp groups after he wrote a 2,000 word exposé detailing how the coalition bungled the campaigns.
"Azimio had too many self-important people doing zero work; sycophants, the presidential candidate's family, and incompetent people in critical roles. They behaved as if we had won and failed to carry out their assigned roles diligently," the outspoken activist who was part of Raila's campaign secretariat said in the dossier.
"They trashed feedback, ignored messages, and never returned calls. The Kenya Kwanza team capitalized on our hubris, organized better, worked harder, and got the controversial win," he added.
