Raila Amollo Odinga Loses the Presidential Seat.

Raila Amollo Odinga who was vieing for the presidential seat has lost it to William Ruto.

Raila Amollo Odinga was contesting on Azimio La Umoja ticket where he was the flagbearer of the party.

He garnered a total votes of 6,942,930 votes.

In 2008 Raila became Kenya’s second Prime Minister during Kibaki’s government.

He later contested for the presidency for the third time in 2013 on a CORD ticket, lost to Uhuru Kenyatta

In 2017 he vied for the presidency for the fourth time on a NASA ticket and lost to Uhuru Kenyatta again.

Odinga successfully filed a petition challenging Uhuru’s victory in court, the win was declared null and void forcing a repeat election, Odinga withdrew from the election re-run

Raila-Uhuru decided to reconcile and shook hands before millions of Kenyans

In 2022 he now  vied for the presidency for the fifth time on Azimio la Umoja – One Kenya Alliance ticket.