Posted Monday, April 5 2010
Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga has told losers in the coming elections in Uganda to accept defeat and work with the elected government to avoid replicating the bloodshed that followed Kenya’s highly contested election results in 2007.
He told journalists in Soroti over the weekend that leaders should look at elections as a democratic process where there will be winners and losers. “When somebody loses an election let us accept that you have lost and work with the new government,” he said.
Mr Odinga was in the town on a private visit to the home of former Soroti Municipality MP Capt. Mike Mukula. He said Africans should look at free and fair elections as means to attain democracy.
About 1,000 people were killed and scores injured in violence that erupted in Kenya when Mr Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement contested presidential election results that were won by the ruling Party of National Unity headed by President Mwai Kibaki.
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