{"id":14118,"date":"2020-09-09T17:26:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T17:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=14118"},"modified":"2020-09-09T17:26:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T17:26:07","slug":"malala-makes-up-with-mudavadi-after-raila-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/malala-makes-up-with-mudavadi-after-raila-meeting","title":{"rendered":"Malala makes up with Mudavadi after Raila meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0Moses Nyamori and Mike Kihaki\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala has closed ranks with his Amani National Congress (ANC) party leader Musalia Mudavadi.<\/p>\n<p>Malala apologised over his political run-ins with Mudavadi and declared support for him as the Luhya\u2019s kingpin.\u00a0Speaking during the funeral service of Church of God Archbishop Byrum Makokha at Mariakani Christian Centre in Nairobi on Tuesday, the senator accused some forces of trying to use him to fight Luhya leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I have made remarks against you for political reasons. But I have now asked Mudavadi for forgiveness,\u201d Malala told Mudavadi, who\u00a0was present at the service.<\/p>\n<p>He said his decision to rejoin the party will not please some politicians whom he claimed have been benefiting from his attacks against his party leader.\u00a0\u201cI will continue working with the handshake team, but I will not accept to be used to abuse Luhya leaders,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>he said.\u00a0Malala was part of the team of Luhya leaders who endorsed Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya and Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa as the Western region\u2019s spokespersons.\u00a0But on Tuesday, he claimed the resolutions made at Cotu Secretary General Francis Atwoli\u2019s Kajiado home were reached after they had had drinks that may have \u201cconfused\u201d them.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His surprise political turnaround comes amid reports of a fallout with ODM leader Raila Odinga over the counties\u2019 revenue allocation formula standoff at the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, Raila lashed out at Malala, questioning his decision to oppose the proposed revenue sharing formula when his county stood to gain hundreds of millions of shillings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are elected as an MP or senator, you are supposed to represent the people,&#8221; Raila told a gathering in Kakamega.\u00a0Malala had met Raila at the ODM leader&#8217;s Capitol Hill offices on Monday in what appeared to be a meeting to mend fences.<\/p>\n<p>Malala and ANC nominated MP Godfrey Osotsi have been on a warpath with Mudavadi.\u00a0Yesterday, Osotsi accused the senator\u00a0of\u00a0flip-flopping and lying that they had agreed to rejoin Mudavadi. Osotsi was also present at the church function.\u00a0ANC had expelled Malala in June over his association with Raila and his decision to back an ODM candidate in the Kibra by-election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Moses Nyamori and Mike Kihaki\u00a0\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala has closed ranks with his Amani National Congress (ANC) party leader Musalia Mudavadi. Malala apologised over his political run-ins with Mudavadi and declared support for him as the Luhya\u2019s kingpin.\u00a0Speaking during the funeral service of Church of God Archbishop Byrum Makokha at Mariakani Christian Centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[4250,4546,320],"class_list":["post-14118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-cleophas-malala","tag-kakamega-senator","tag-musalia-mudavadi"],"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>Malala makes up with Mudavadi after Raila meeting - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala has closed ranks with his Amani National Congress (ANC) party leader Musalia Mudavadi.Malala\" \/>\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\/malala-makes-up-with-mudavadi-after-raila-meeting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malala makes up with Mudavadi after Raila meeting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala has closed ranks with his Amani National Congress (ANC) party leader Musalia Mudavadi.Malala\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/malala-makes-up-with-mudavadi-after-raila-meeting\" \/>\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=\"2020-09-09T17:26:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/malala_rejoins_mudav5f58f33a21701.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"647\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"404\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/malala-makes-up-with-mudavadi-after-raila-meeting#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/malala-makes-up-with-mudavadi-after-raila-meeting\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Malala makes up with Mudavadi after Raila meeting\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-09T17:26:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/malala-makes-up-with-mudavadi-after-raila-meeting\"},\"wordCount\":376,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/malala-makes-up-with-mudavadi-after-raila-meeting#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/malala_rejoins_mudav5f58f33a21701.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Cleophas Malala\",\"Kakamega Senator\",\"Musalia Mudavadi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/malala-makes-up-with-mudavadi-after-raila-meeting#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/malala-makes-up-with-mudavadi-after-raila-meeting\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/malala-makes-up-with-mudavadi-after-raila-meeting\",\"name\":\"Malala makes up with Mudavadi after Raila meeting - 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