No, COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli did not renounce presidential candidate Raila Odinga.

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COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli renounces Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition presidential candidate Raila Odinga.

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The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is False.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We discovered footage from Ziwa TV and Kaste TV’s live coverage of the event on Facebook on July 24, 2022, during the Azimio Campaigns in Nyahururu. The videos did not contain the claims as depicted in the tiktok videos.

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No, COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli did not renounce presidential candidate Raila Odinga.

The tiktok video circulating on social media purporting to show Atwoli renouncing ODM leader Raila Odinga is manipulated.

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