Kenya’s Amina Mohamed urges re-evaluation of country’s neighbours over her loss at AU
Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed has called for a re-evaluation of the country’s neighbours for abandoning her during the AUC chairperson polls in Addis Ababa.
According to her, the re-evaluation should establish why Kenya’s neighbours decamped to vote for other candidates in the Monday elections, Daily Nation reports.
Amina did not give names to the countries
In the first press conference since she lost to Chadian foreign minister Moussa Faki Mahamat,
Addressing a press conference after her loss, Ms Mohamed on Tuesday said some of the pledges made by the unnamed neighbouring countries were “deceptive.”
The report further quotes her saying “Things fell apart at the last round,” she told journalists in Addis.
“I think the fear from some that maybe we were going to get it (led to this). So they probably withdrew their support.”
She said Kenya should draw lessons from the loss.
