{"id":14213,"date":"2020-09-11T19:18:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T19:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=14213"},"modified":"2020-09-11T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T19:18:11","slug":"ruto-allies-now-plot-kalonzo-ouster-as-ukambani-kingpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/ruto-allies-now-plot-kalonzo-ouster-as-ukambani-kingpin","title":{"rendered":"Ruto allies now plot Kalonzo ouster as Ukambani kingpin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0Erastus Mulwa\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> A section of Ukambani politicians allied to Deputy President William Ruto has vowed to oust Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka as the region\u2019s de facto political kingpin.<\/p>\n<p>Former Machakos Senator\u00a0Johnstone Muthama, who is leading a battalion of pro-Ruto campaigners in the lower Eastern region, on Wednesday hosted dozens of political aspirants, professionals and businessmen at his Mua Hills home in Machakos, where calls to \u2018wipe out Kalonzo\u2019 from Ukambani were discussed.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was the culmination of two other forums held last week in Kangundo and Matungulu constituencies, in which MPs Victor Munyaka (Machakos Town), Fabian Muli (Kangundo), Nimrod Mbai (Kitui East) and Vincent Musyoka (Mwala) urged locals to support Dr Ruto\u2019s 2022 presidential bid.<\/p>\n<p>In the Mua meeting, which was chaired by Mr Muthama<strong>\u00a0(pictured)<\/strong>\u00a0alongside Mr Munyaka, Mr Mbai and Mr Musyoka, there were intensified calls to have Kalonzo removed from his position as Ukambani political kingpin as well as suppress Wiper\u2019s dominance in the region\u2019s politics.<\/p>\n<p>Former Masinga MP Itwiku Mbai said although Kalonzo had been at the helm of the region\u2019s leadership for many years, he had failed to establish a firm political leadership for the Kamba community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a community, we badly need a new shift in leadership. It is useless for people to profess love for Kalonzo if he (Kalonzo) cannot offer the desired leadership for this community,\u201d said the former MP.\u00a0Mbai said it would be fatal for the community to head for the next election under Kalonzo\u2019s stewardship.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chama Cha Uzalendo national organising secretary Davis Musau proposed the formation of a new political command centre for Ukambani to remove Wiper from the region\u2019s politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe political command centre is expected to breathe a new life to the region\u2019s politics and liberate our people from the fruitless loyalty to Wiper, which has not been keen on having a stake in national politics,\u201d said Musau.\u00a0\u201cOur priority should be to eliminate Wiper from Ukambani through smart politics.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a great victory if the party (Wiper) fails to deliver a single MP\u2019s seat in any of the eight constituencies within Machakos,\u201d said former Machakos Town MP Alphonse Musyoki.<\/p>\n<p>Munyaka announced his decision to set aside his ambition for the Machakos gubernatorial seat in favour of Muthama\u2019s candidature.\u00a0\u201cAs we campaign for Ruto to be the next president, I declare that I have deferred my ambitions to support Muthama\u2019s candidature,\u201d said Mr Munyaka.\u00a0Muthama, who quit Wiper after a bitter fallout with Kalonzo, said he would continue to host similar forums for delegates from Kitui and Makueni counties in coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Erastus Mulwa\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: A section of Ukambani politicians allied to Deputy President William Ruto has vowed to oust Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka as the region\u2019s de facto political kingpin. Former Machakos Senator\u00a0Johnstone Muthama, who is leading a battalion of pro-Ruto campaigners in the lower Eastern region, on Wednesday hosted dozens of political aspirants, professionals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[314,4330,5619],"class_list":["post-14213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-deputy-president-william-ruto","tag-johnstone-muthama","tag-ukambani-politicians"],"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>Ruto allies now plot Kalonzo ouster as Ukambani kingpin - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A section of Ukambani politicians allied to Deputy President William Ruto has vowed to oust Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka as the\" \/>\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\/ruto-allies-now-plot-kalonzo-ouster-as-ukambani-kingpin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ruto allies now plot Kalonzo ouster as Ukambani kingpin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A section of Ukambani politicians allied to Deputy President William Ruto has vowed to oust Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka as the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/ruto-allies-now-plot-kalonzo-ouster-as-ukambani-kingpin\" \/>\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=\"2020-09-11T19:18:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/muthama_plots_to_wip5f5a6c0bc4df6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\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\/ruto-allies-now-plot-kalonzo-ouster-as-ukambani-kingpin#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/ruto-allies-now-plot-kalonzo-ouster-as-ukambani-kingpin\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ruto allies now plot Kalonzo ouster as Ukambani kingpin\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-11T19:18:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/ruto-allies-now-plot-kalonzo-ouster-as-ukambani-kingpin\"},\"wordCount\":451,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/ruto-allies-now-plot-kalonzo-ouster-as-ukambani-kingpin#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/muthama_plots_to_wip5f5a6c0bc4df6.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Deputy President William Ruto\",\"Johnstone Muthama\",\"Ukambani politicians\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/ruto-allies-now-plot-kalonzo-ouster-as-ukambani-kingpin#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/ruto-allies-now-plot-kalonzo-ouster-as-ukambani-kingpin\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/ruto-allies-now-plot-kalonzo-ouster-as-ukambani-kingpin\",\"name\":\"Ruto allies now plot Kalonzo ouster as Ukambani kingpin - 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