Uhuru Kenyatta says Raila won in 2022. But what happened to the facts? Four years after the 2022 presidential election, former President Uhuru Kenyatta has reopened one of Kenya’s most politically sensitive chapters. Speaking during a Jubilee Party National Executive Council meeting in Nairobi on September 22, 2026, Kenyatta said he still believes that Raila Odinga won the 2022 presidential election. “I know that he won that election,” Kenyatta said, according to reports of his remarks. He also questioned how the political alliance supporting Odinga could have won more members of Parliament, senators and governors while losing the presidency. That is a serious political claim. But it immediately raises an equally serious question: If Uhuru Kenyatta knew in 2022 that Raila Odinga had actually won, why did he not say so then? At the time, Kenyatta was not an ordinary political observer. He was the sitting President of the Republic of Kenya and Commander in Chief of the Defence Forces. He had spent five years working with William Ruto as his Deputy President before their political relationship collapsed. In the 2022 election, Kenyatta openly supported Raila Odinga against his former deputy. So the question is not whether Uhuru was entitled