KENYAN opposition leader Raila Odinga rejected US calls to abandon his mock presidential inauguration, arguing that he does not recognise the legitimacy of Uhuru Kenyatta as president.

On Wednesday, the US embassy in Nairobi called next Tuesday’s planned ceremony “extra-constitutional.”

But Mr Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), which opposes Mr Kenyatta’s re-election, said it would proceed with next week’s protest event regardless.