{"id":12885,"date":"2020-08-16T16:46:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=12885"},"modified":"2020-08-16T16:46:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:46:54","slug":"raila-endorses-nyongo-for-second-term-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/raila-endorses-nyongo-for-second-term-in-2022","title":{"rendered":"Raila endorses Nyong\u2019o for second term in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0Kevine Omollo\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Orange Democratic Movement party leader Raila Odinga yesterday appeared to endorse Kisumu Governor Anyang\u2019 Nyong\u2019o for a second term in office.<\/p>\n<p>Raila\u2019s endorsement came after a three-hour closed-door meeting with the governor, during his first visit to Nyanza region in the last six months.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his continued plea to politicians to keep off 2022 elections debate, Raila praised the governor\u2019s performance in the three years he has been in office.\u00a0Raila addressed a crowd of youths chanting \u2018Nyong\u2019o tano tena\u2019 (five more years for Nyong\u2019o) outside the governor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHasn\u2019t Nyong\u2019o done a great job? Are you happy?\u201d posed Raila before raising his right hand fist, prompting the \u2018tano tena\u2019 chants.\u00a0Raila had earlier met the County Assembly leadership, including Speaker Elisha Oraro and Majority Leader Ken Onyango, former deputy governor Ruth Odinga and a host of ward reps at the governor\u2019s office.\u00a0Sources said the agenda of the meeting revolved around rallying the assembly to support Nyong\u2019o\u2019s development agenda for Kisumu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe former Prime Minister was happy that wrangles witnessed at the assembly in the past have died down. He urged us to give Nyong\u2019o a conducive working environment,\u201d said a source who attended the meeting.\u00a0Before the two meetings, Raila addressed the press at the governor\u2019s boardroom where he praised Nyong\u2019o\u2019s development record.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWhen I met Health CS Mutahi Kagwe, he told me how Kisumu has grown and is very clean. I am coming back here after six months and I can see the change,\u201d said Raila.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to Raila\u2019s apparent endorsement, a number of leaders eyeing the governor\u2019s seat in 2022 dismissed it as a political stunt staged by Nyong\u2019o.<\/p>\n<p>Former governor Jack Ranguma, who lost to Nyong\u2019o in 2017, accused the governor of trying to hijack the 2022 race.\u00a0Ranguma said the \u2018purported endorsement\u2019 will not scare him out of the race to recapture the governor\u2019s seat in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it was a real endorsement then it stifles democracy. It is the voters who know what Nyong\u2019o has done in the last three years and it is them who must be given a chance to make a choice in 2022,\u201d said Ranguma.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Fred Outa, who is also in the race to dethrone Nyong\u2019o, accused the governor of planting goons to intimidate Raila into endorsing him.\u00a0\u201cWhat I saw were goons planted by Nyong\u2019o shouting \u2018tano tena\u2019, and Raila just responding so that he finds his way out of the place,\u201d said Outa.\u00a0Just like Ranguma, Outa said he was firmly in the race to dethrone Nyong\u2019o, and that he would not be disrupted by \u201cside shows\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently the ODM is restructuring and the party leader has been assuring us that he wants democracy to prevail. People will face voters in nominations. Let Nyong\u2019o not dream of a direct ticket,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>After the press conference, Raila went back to another meeting with Nyong\u2019o, in which sources said they discussed regional politics, development and the Building Bridges Initiative.\u00a0Later on, Raila briefly met senior national government officials led by County Commissioner Susan Waweru before continuing the meeting with the governor.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said Nyong\u2019o took time to brief Raila on what has been happening in the regional politics and the fight against Covid-19 in Nyanza.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders discussed reforms in the sugar industry and how the stalemate in the Senate over division of revenue was affecting counties.\u00a0After the meeting at around 7pm, Raila and Nyong\u2019o stepped out and were met by a group of youths who demanded that they address them.<\/p>\n<p>Raila assured the youth that he was back on his feet after undergoing treatment abroad.\u00a0Of the six governors in Nyanza, only Nyong\u2019o is eligible for re-election, as the rest are serving their second and last terms.<\/p>\n<p>Raila\u2019s visit to Nyong\u2019o\u2019s office was the first since the governor took office, and the first since devolution began.\u00a0The opposition leader never stepped into the office during the five-year tenure of Nyong\u2019o\u2019s predecessor, Ranguma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Kevine Omollo\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: Orange Democratic Movement party leader Raila Odinga yesterday appeared to endorse Kisumu Governor Anyang\u2019 Nyong\u2019o for a second term in office. Raila\u2019s endorsement came after a three-hour closed-door meeting with the governor, during his first visit to Nyanza region in the last six months. 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