NASA should look for votes to win the August 8 election, not abstain from sex as this guarantees nothing, Deputy President William Ruto has said.
Opposition presidential candidate has told supporters to avoid intercourse on the eve of election day, as a requirement for going to "war".
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But Ruto said: "It doesn't matter whether you don't sleep...whether you don't have sex...whatever you want. You can't win the election if you've not looked for votes."
Speaking during an interview on the Capital Breakfast Show on Thursday, he noted that to win, NASA chiefs must sell their agenda.
"If you don't have enough votes it doesn't matter how much you protect few votes...they will not help you win an election," the DP said.
Raila, his four co-principals and other Opposition politicians have declared they will do whatever it takes to guard their votes at polling stations.
The Opposition chief has vied and lost three times before and has often complained of rigging. He said he will not do so again but this has not be case.
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Ruto said NASA leaders have "driven themselves into a hole" and made supporters believes the March 4, 2013 general election was rigged.
"I really sympathise with our competitors. They lost the elections because their votes were fewer than ours."
"NO MIRACLES WILL HAPPEN"
The DP further said the Opposition should not just sit pretty and wait for miracles to happen on August 8.
He also advised that the National Super Alliance re-fashion its game plan before the polls.
"We won the last elections fair and square and we expected our friends to begin there. The first thing they needed to do was admit that they lost the elections," he said.
"...instead of coming to terms with the fact that they lost, they manufactured a lie that they lost because the elections were stolen. It is a lie. I want to tell them, 'gentlemen, please help yourselves'."
Last year, Raila gave an account of how the last general election was rigged, saying commissioners called him and made a confession.
The ODM cief said anomalies were noticed in records the electoral commission submitted following a court order.
He told the Law Society of Kenya annual conference in Diani, Kwale county, that they have 900 pages of evidence of the rigging.
"We did an analysis of the results in London. It showed something very interesting," he said noting 10 million people voted for MCAs, MPs, woman representatives, senators and governors each.
"But 12 million people voted for the presidency," he said, terming this the anomaly they talked about when the electoral body released the poll results."
[VIDEO] Raila reveals IEBC confession of rigging in 2013 election
The 2013 election, in which Uhuru Kenyatta emerged winner, was marred by technical issues that delayed results.
The electronic voter transmission system set up and managed by the IEBC crashed earlier on election day. Claims emerged of sabotage as a way of rigging the election.
Elections in the country are traditionally tight but there has never been a run-off.
Read: How 2013 elections were rigged in favour of Uhuru, claims Raila
Also read: IEBC dismisses election rigging claims
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