PLO Lumumba, an Advocate of the High Court has pointed to key mistakes that led to former Prime Minister Raila Odinga's loss in the African Union (AUC) chairmanship race.
Speaking on Spice FM on Monday, Lumumba said Kenya's weak diplomatic relations contributed to Odinga's defeat. He noted Odinga's camp, mistook meetings with presidents for genuine support. "The Raila camp and Kenya by extension assumed that when the presidents accorded him the courtesy of meeting them, that amounted to support.
This was courtesy and it's indicative of how as a country our diplomacy is weak," he said.
Lumumba criticised the campaign procedure used by Odinga, accusing him and his allies of presenting the position as if Odinga were the 'president of presidents.' "This is the head of the secretariat yet they were marketing it to the Kenyan population that Odinga was to be the president of presidents," he added.
