‘You Do Not Abandon Him’: Uhuru’s Moving Tribute to Raila Odinga
Source: Nairobi Wire
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Former President Uhuru Kenyatta recounted two defining milestones in his political journey with the late former Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga, reflecting on their historic 2018 handshake and his subsequent backing of Raila’s 2022 presidential candidacy. In an in-memoriam tribute issued on October 15, 2026, Kenyatta remembered Raila as a relentless bridgebuilder who showed Kenya that true national reconciliation requires leaders to overcome entrenched political and social divisions. “To ‘Raila’ is to persist. To ‘Raila’ is to refuse the silence that tyranny demands. To ‘Raila’ is to believe, against all evidence, that the arc of our continent can be bent The post ‘You Do Not Abandon Him’: Uhuru’s Moving Tribute to Raila Odinga appeared first on Nairobi Wire.