No, Roots Party Presidential Candidate George Wajackoyah has not endorsed Raila Odinga. - iVerify Kenya

No, Roots Party Presidential Candidate George Wajackoyah has not endorsed Raila Odinga.

False

Roots Party Presidential spokesperson and head of media Wilson Muirani (Jaymo Ule Msee) denied in a press statement on August 3, 2022 that the party’s presidential candidate Wajackoyah endorsed ODM leader Raila Odinga for the presidency.

Jaymo Ule Msee termed the notion as hopeless imagination and wishful thinking, with the letter stating that the Roots Party has not and will not endorse any other candidate besides Wajackoyah.

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Verified Aug, 03 2022

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Roots Party Presidential Candidate George Wajackoyah Endorses Raila Odinga’s Presidential Bid.

Rating Justification

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. On August 3, 2022, we discovered a statement shared by Roots Party Presidential spokesperson and head of media Wilson Muirani (Jaymo Ule Msee) on his official Facebook account stating that Wajackoyah was addressing his supporters and that the biased media doctored the clip to allegedly suit and push for support for ODM leader Raila Odinga.

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