Trump win sparks online war between ODM and Jubilee

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Moments after Washington outsider and business mogul Donald Trump was elected US President, Facebook was ablaze with a bitter war of words between ODM and Jubilee over who should learn from the win.

The election of Trump stunned both supporters and opponents the world over with stock markets reacting angrily to the election of a man who is widely considered to be an outsider.

In Kenya, ODM and Jubilee decided to trade accusations over who supported him in the elections.
The first to fire a salvo was ODM’s Director of Communication Phillip Etale who in his Facebook page accused Government insiders saying they had a lot to learn from the win.


Dennis  Itumbi The PSCU Director of Digital Communication was the first to respond saying that the winning lessons were mainly meant for former PM Raila Odinga.


He gave a link in which the former PM and ODM flag bearer had supported Hilary Clinton and even attended the Democratic Party Congress in which she was declared the party’s flagbearer. In the article Raila claimed that Trump did not have a policy for Africa and that is why he did not support him.

Etale was at it again claiming that Jubilee was yet to congratulate Trump and instead said that Tanzanian  President John Magufuli was among the first world leaders to congratulate Trump. 



Itumbi responded with President Uhuru’s update.


The war of words ignored the fact  that both the Government and the opposition had a lot to learn from the win which indicated that the media and opinion pollsters could no longer  be taken as critical opinion shapers in election matters.





  

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