Kalonzo Ally Threatens to Quit Azimio Running Mate Selection Panel
Kalonzo Ally Threatens to Quit Azimio Running Mate Selection Panel Over the Inclusion of Charity Ngilu’s Name.
Kitui Senator Enoch Wambua has threatened to quit the Azimio selection panel over the inclusion of Ngilu’s name.
Wambua claimed Kitui governor Charity Ngilu’s name was stealthily sneaked into the shortlist of seven candidates.
He said seven names were unanimously picked during Friday´s sitting but Ngilu´s name was later included on the shortlist.
Wambua said he would rather exit the panel instead of allowing underhand deals and behind the scene maneuvers that are not in the realm of the mandates of the team.
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Kalonzo Ally Threatens to Quit
“What the presidential candidates asked the panel to do is to get him a suitable deputy who will help him win the elections not considering friendship, emotions activism, which will not help in winning the election,” the senator said.
He made the remarks at Kyondoni Primary school in Kitui West sub-county while addressing church leaders drawn from various parts of Kitui, local Christian faithful, and coordinators of his campaigns.
The panel said on Friday that it had picked seven individuals from a pool of 20 applicants who expressed interest in deputising Raila Odinga.
They were Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka, Narc Kenya Martha Karua, Mombasa governor Hassan Joho, Sabina Chege, a Muranga Woman Representative, Peter Kenneth, Kanu Chairman Gideon Moi, and Stephen Tarus of the National Liberty Party are among the others.
Shortly afterward, the panel leased another amended list with the NARC leader as the eighth selected candidate.
But Wambua said he believes in justice, magnanimity, and the truth and he was not a man to be compromised or be bought.
“If I interrogate the panel and establish that we have just been put there to rubber-stamp a pre-determined decision that is not good and suitable, take it from me, I as Enoch Kiio Wambua I will easily resign from the outfit,” Wambua said.
“The truth of the matter is that if Kalonzo Musyoka will not be deputy president on August 9 this year, then take it to a safe bank that even Raila Amolo Odinga will not be president,” he added to wild cheers from the crowd.
Other names have also been included in the shortlist are CS Peter Munya, Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya, and his Nakuru counterpart Lee Kinyanjui.
The panel is set to determine the three best-suited candidates by May 10 and forward the names to ODM leader Raila Odinga ahead of the May 16 IEBC deadline.
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