Group declares support for Mudavadi bid

By Eric Lungai

Leaders from Western region have supported Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi’s decision to push his bid for presidency to the end after parting ways with Jubilee Alliance.

Addressing the Press at Majengo market in Vihiga County yesterday, the leaders under the Western Leaders’ Forum, said Mudavadi made a wise move to quit the alliance. They pointed out that Mudavadi enjoyed goodwill of most Kenyans and was capable of turning tables in the next General Election.

“After the fiasco in Jubilee Alliance the only way Mudavadi can salvage his political career is to soldier on with his presidential bid,” said Abubakar Wandala Suleiman, the secretary general of Muslim Educational Secretariat in Western Province.

The leaders bemoaned the harsh treatment on Mudavadi by the alliance principals Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto. “We have learned with disbelief and regret that Mudavadi has been constantly humiliated and frustrated by MPs allied to TNA,” said Suleiman.

The members asked the TNA leader Uhuru to clarify where the delegates who are to be involved in the National Delegates Congress on Sunday at Kasarani in Nairobi were drawn from, yet they had never held party elections at the grassroots level.

“The NDC that endorsed Uhuru was illegal because delegates who gave him a clean bill of health are ineligible to take part in such an important exercise,” he said.

The group said it is high time that Uhuru also sacrificed for Mudavadi.