Ababu Namwamba Reveals Who He Will Support in 2017 Presidential Race
KENYA: Budalangi MP Ababu Namwamba and his allies will only support a Luhya candidate in the 2017 presidential race.
However, Ababu had ruled out any possibility of going back to CORD or joining Jubilee coalition.
"As leaders from Western Kenya, and the whole Mulembe nation for that matter, we must be on the ballot in 2017, there is no doubt about it… As a community, we must assert our numerical strength and rally behind one of our own,” Sirisia MP John Walukhe told The Star on Saturday, July 30.
To this effect, Ababu Namwamba and his colleagues are pushing Luhya politicians seeking the top seat to unite and agree on one candidate that the whole community will support.
The group has opened talks with Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi, Ford Kenya leader Moses Wetangula and former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo to establish common ground forge an alliance, the paper reported.
They are also reaching out to Central Organization of Trade Unions (Kenya) Secretary General Francis Atwoli to back their push for Luhya unity.
Mudavadi is the undisputed ANC presidential candidate while Wetangula is still fighting for the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) ticket.
Wetangula’s CORD co-principals, Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka, also want the ticket.
Ababu Namwamba, while responding to Deputy President William Ruto’s claim that he was set to join Jubilee, said that he would join none of the two major coalitions.
Namwamba said he was only focused on the agenda of realizing the political aspirations of the Luhya community.
SOURCE: Tuko, The African Post, The Star,
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