{"id":14844,"date":"2020-09-23T20:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T20:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=14844"},"modified":"2020-09-23T20:12:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T20:12:36","slug":"dp-ruto-accepts-jubilee-decision-not-to-field-candidate-in-msambweni-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/dp-ruto-accepts-jubilee-decision-not-to-field-candidate-in-msambweni-but","title":{"rendered":"DP Ruto accepts Jubilee decision not to field candidate in Msambweni but…"},"content":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Deputy President William Ruto says he supports the decision by the ruling Jubilee Party not to field a candidate\u00a0in the Msambweni by-election although he was initially of a contrary opinion.<\/p>\n

Tellingly, the DP said he had gone to the Jubilee Party headquarters on Tuesday to discuss the Msambweni by-election and others in four or five words with secretary-general Raphael only to find that he had left for the day.<\/p>\n

The Deputy President, however, absolved Mr Tuju of blame as the decision had already been made.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am satisfied with what they have done. I was of a different view on Msambweni but a decision has been made,\u201d Dr Ruto told journalists after a meeting with Mr Tuju at the party headquarters to where he had driven barely an hour after Mr Tuju announced the party\u2019s decision not to field a candidate.<\/p>\n

With a tinge of disappointment, Ruto said, \u201cJubilee believes in giving every ward and constituency a chance to express itself and that is what President Uhuru Kenyatta and I believe in.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said there should be open doors so that people like Sharlet Mariam Akinyi [who was there to present her candidature papers] are not denied the chance to run. Akinyi is a one-time personal assistant of Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko.<\/p>\n

He, however, said those who had been locked out of the Msambweni race could still run as independents\u00a0as Jubilee had no candidate there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sympathise with the good lady here,\u201d said the Deputy President in reference to Ms Akinyi.<\/p>\n

As to whether he will throw his weight behind Ms Akinyi, the DP jokingly replied: \u201cYes, if she talks to me nicely\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, Dr Ruto pointed out that the party is not being folded.<\/p>\n

\u201cJubilee is expanding,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Earlier on, Mr Tuju had announced that Jubilee would not field a candidate for the Msambweni by-election<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the unprecedented corporation between Jubilee and ODM in the parliament in the recent past on matter of national importance and given that is was an ODM seat, the decision has been made that Jubilee will not field a candidate in the interest of the bigger picture,\u201d read a statement from the ruling party signed by Mr Tuju.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe country has very serious constitutional matters to deal with that will require sobriety and reaching across the political divides in order to navigate our beloved country across some of these challenges,\u201d added the statement.<\/p>\n

The IEBC has set December 15 as the election date after the initially intended June by-election\u00a0was halted with the unprecedented effects of Covid-19.<\/p>\n

The Msambweni seat was left vacant after the\u00a0death\u00a0of\u00a0Suleiman Dori.<\/p>\n

In September 2019, Dr Ruto\u00a0went against the grain\u00a0and had Jubilee fielding retired football star Mc Donal Mariga against ODM’s\u00a0 Imran Okoth after the death of popular MP Ken Okoth, Imran’s brother.<\/p>\n

Imran won in a race where one faction of the Jubilee Party led by Maina Kamanda campaigned for Imran while the other led by the Deputy President\u00a0 wooed voters to elect Mariga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Kenya: Deputy President William Ruto says he supports the decision by the ruling Jubilee Party not to field a candidate\u00a0in the Msambweni by-election although he was initially of a contrary opinion. 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