Lead Kambas to Jubilee, Kalonzo told

Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka. (Photo: Beverlyne Musili/Standard)

Machakos Town MP Victor Munyaka Wednesday called on residents to support President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election bid.

"I want to urge our people not to waste their votes on the Opposition because it will lose in next year's General Election," Munyaka said when he accompanied the President who is on a two-day tour of the region considered an Opposition stronghold.

He also told Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka to lead Kambas into Jubilee 'to save them from another five years in the political cold'.

The MP said intolerance and the hard positions taken by a section of Kalonzo's allies are to blame 'for the slow pace of development in counties in the entire region'.

"Kambas must wake up and join Jubilee Party. We must refuse to be herded into a political outfit like sheep," he said and thanked the Government for its plan to upgrade the Kibwezi-Mutomo-Kitui-Migwani road which he noted had been in a sorry state for many years.

He added: "The road, whose tarmacking will start immediately, is part of an international highway that holds the key to unlocking economic potentials of the three Ukambani counties and beyond and that is why we are happy it has been prioritised in the ongoing efforts to upgrade infrastructure, not just in Ukambani, but in the entire country."

Munyaka is among rebel Wiper MPs who Kalonzo has declared he will not accept into the party after they joined the ruling coalition.

ODM, Wiper's key partner in the opposition coalition CORD, has since expelled 10 rebels, including one governor, a deputy governor, five MPs, who include the party's former secretrary-general Ababu Namwamba, a woman MP and a member of county assembly.

The party has since written to the Registrar of Political Parties to have the 10 stricken off the party's register, a move that will trigger by-elections in their areas.