{"id":12790,"date":"2020-08-14T14:49:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T14:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=12790"},"modified":"2020-08-14T14:49:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T14:49:26","slug":"jubilee-endorses-former-mp-for-speakers-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/jubilee-endorses-former-mp-for-speakers-seat","title":{"rendered":"Jubilee endorses former MP for speaker\u2019s seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author: Josphat Thiong&#8217;o\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Jubilee party has endorsed Bernard Mutura as its candidate for the speaker of the Nairobi County Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The position fell vacant on Tuesday after Beatrice Elachi announced her resignation citing continued wrangles, threats on her life and competing interests from forces outside City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Jubilee Party Secretary Genera Raphael Tuju yesterday announced that following consultations with the top leadership, the party had endorsed Mutura, a former Makadara member of Parliament.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWe have zeroed in on Benard Mutura as the Jubilee candidate. The other candidates are free to contest but as Jubilee, Mutura is our candidate,\u201d said Tuju.<\/p>\n<p>Further talks\u00a0\u201cAs for the deputy speaker\u2019s position, we will hold further consultations with the MCAs and President Uhuru Kenyatta and decide,\u201d added Tuju.\u00a0At the same time, Tuju has called on MCAS to stop their infighting and focus on helping the Nairobi Metropolitan Service to deliver its mandate.\u00a0Seven candidates are seeking to replace Elachi.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Mutura, former Nairobi County Assembly deputy speaker Ken Ngondi and Finance Chief Officer Washington Makodingo have also thrown their hats into the ring.\u00a0Others are former speaker Alex ole Magelo,\u00a0Abdi Ali Abdi, Mike Obonyo Guoro and Allan Chacha Mang\u2019era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Josphat Thiong&#8217;o\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: Jubilee party has endorsed Bernard Mutura as its candidate for the speaker of the Nairobi County Assembly. The position fell vacant on Tuesday after Beatrice Elachi announced her resignation citing continued wrangles, threats on her life and competing interests from forces outside City Hall. Jubilee Party Secretary Genera Raphael Tuju yesterday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[5212,446,426],"class_list":["post-12790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-bernard-mutura","tag-jubilee-party","tag-nairobi-county-assembly"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jubilee endorses former MP for speaker\u2019s seat - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jubilee party has endorsed Bernard Mutura as its candidate for the speaker of the Nairobi County Assembly.The position fell vacant on\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/jubilee-endorses-former-mp-for-speakers-seat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jubilee endorses former MP for speaker\u2019s seat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jubilee party has endorsed Bernard Mutura as its candidate for the speaker of the Nairobi County Assembly.The position fell vacant on\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/jubilee-endorses-former-mp-for-speakers-seat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-14T14:49:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/08\/jubilee_endorses_for5f35927a0402a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/jubilee-endorses-former-mp-for-speakers-seat#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/jubilee-endorses-former-mp-for-speakers-seat\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Jubilee endorses former MP for speaker\u2019s seat\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-14T14:49:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/jubilee-endorses-former-mp-for-speakers-seat\"},\"wordCount\":209,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/jubilee-endorses-former-mp-for-speakers-seat#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/08\/jubilee_endorses_for5f35927a0402a.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bernard Mutura\",\"Jubilee Party\",\"Nairobi County Assembly\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/jubilee-endorses-former-mp-for-speakers-seat#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/jubilee-endorses-former-mp-for-speakers-seat\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/jubilee-endorses-former-mp-for-speakers-seat\",\"name\":\"Jubilee endorses former MP for speaker\u2019s seat - 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