Deputy President William Ruto is in London where he was attending a conference at Chatham House.
While giving his speech DP Ruto touched on the issue of elections in Kenya which is usually a major problem every five years in Kenya.
According to DP the real problem with elections in Kenya is people who do not accept defeat.
“… the problem is the people who refuse the outcome of elections. That is when they run amok. Going forward we should only allow democrats to participate in the elections,” he said.
In addition he said, “I believe strongly that in our politics, IEBC is the least of our problems. We have used the IEBC as a convenient ‘excuse’ for those who do not win elections.”
“If you go to an election and you expect to win then you have a problem … the real problem according to me from where I sit is that we have people who do not believe in participating in democratic elections,” he said.
While giving an example of the 2017 election, Ruto mentioned of the 2017 run off saying that they had won the election only for the Supreme Court to nullify it.
“We have serious misgiving about what the court did but we said we will participate in the second election because we are democratic,” he said.
“… we had won more seats in every category. How possible was it that we lost the election? It does not make sense but as democrats, we went back.” Raila has vied and lost in 1997, 2007, 2013 and 2017. Uhuru and Raila were the main contenders in the 2013 and 2017 election that attracted eight candidates.
Ruto further proposed a review of the Constitution that would accommodate election losers in the running of the country.
He said a reconfiguration of the Constitution that makes election losers active would boost accountability in the government.