The COTU secretary Francis Atwoli general believes that the election of William Ruto as the fifth president of Kenya was God’s plans.
Speaking in an event in Western Kenya, the COTU boss however said that he never thought a time would come for him to tell his tribemates to get used to Ruto as the president.
“I even told Kenyans to get used to Raila’s voice, I didn’t know that I would come back here asking you to get used to William Ruto’s voice. You see the work of God, you plan your things but He has other plans,”Atwoli said.
He further admitted that Ruto beat them because of skills and generally being smart politically, unlike them who had no skills.
“We went to sleep knowing that we had won. Little did we know that we were doing politics without skills. When we saw people clapping for us we knew they were for us but William Ruto had political skills and political smartness. He outsmarted us.” Atwoli explained.
He however urged the locals to accept Ruto as the president so that the country can go on peacefully.
“Ruto also walked with Luhyas. So we accepted because that was God’s wish. We have to agree with that so that our country can go on peacefully,” the Cotu boss added.
Just weeks to election, Atwoli said that Ruto will never be Kenya’s President, a prediction that he maintained he made in 2014. However as the general elections drew close, he began changing his mind.
“That is what I was saying, but as I had envisaged that he can become a president, the fifth president of the Republic of Kenya, I did not say he can’t become a president. He is a president and I’m urging all Kenyans of goodwill to rally behind him, allow him to form his government, and support him,” he said in an interview with NTV after the Supreme court upheld Ruto’s victory.
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