Health CS Mutahi Kagwe, his Interior counterpart Fred Matiang’i and Defence CS Eugene Wamalwa have endorsed Raila Odinga’s presidential candidature.
The three cabinet secretaries believe that Raila Odinga is the most suitable candidate to succeed president Uhuru Kenyatta after the 2022 General Elections.
According to the cabinet secretaries, the March 2018 handshake between president Kenyatta and the former prime minister brought stability to the country and made it easy for them to carry out development projects which was not the case during the first term of Jubilee’s administration.
The leaders were speaking at a fundraising function at Mwongori High School in Borabu constituency, Nyamira County, where CS Matiang’i played host.
“If it is about these political issues, when my president takes a position, I queue behind my president,” Matiang’i said.
Wamalwa on his side said, “We’re appointed to assist the president…so if he says his handshake with Raila will bring peace, development, as his people we support him.”
While Kagwe said, “This cooperation is what we expect to see us through so that the projects that are currently going on will not stop when the president stops, because that relationship is what will go on.”
Matiang’i said that the majority of Kenyans support president Kenyatta and Raila.
“The majority of our people are where the president and Raila are,” Matiang’i noted.
Kagwe said, “Anytime you want this nation to move and prosper, Mt. Kenya and Nyanza must be together.”
Kisii and Nyamira counties, with a combined voter population of over 825,000 according to the 2017 IEBC register, have been the epicenter of a scramble, with Odinga and Ruto squaring it out.
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