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Author:\u00a0ISAIAH GWENGI\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Businessman Jimi Wanjigi has asked the Agikuyu community to join former Prime Minister Raila\u00a0Odinga\u2019s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) if they want him to ascend to power in 2022.<\/p>\n

Speaking during a church fundraiser at Bondo Anglican Church, Mr\u00a0Wanjigi\u00a0asked the community to join him in the party, which he described as his home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a life member of ODM in this political journey and I am calling upon all my brothers from the mountain to join us in this noble cause,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He spoke a day after leaders from Mt Kenya visited Raila\u2019s home in what has widely been interpreted as a mending of fences between the Luo and Agikuyu communities.<\/p>\n

According to Wanjigi, the Saturday meeting was a sign of good things to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are great times for the country because the Luo and\u00a0Agikuyu\u00a0communities have come together. Every journey starts somewhere and the history of this nation has a foundation in Mount Kenya and Ramogi Hills. It is these two communities that suffered at the hands of colonialists,\u201d said Wanjigi, who had accompanied Raila to the church.<\/p>\n

In a moving and detailed speech, the businessman narrated the nostalgic events before and after the independence.<\/p>\n

Wanjigi, who laughed off the political narrative of the\u00a0Hustler\u00a0versus Dynasty, said that even though he went to school with the Kenyattas, he ventured aggressively in the world of business and politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing to St Mary\u2019s School does not make me a dynasty. I was the chairman of the Jubilee campaign team and our slogan, \u201cWe don\u2019t want analogue, we want digital\u201d, was targeted at Raila Odinga,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Wanjigi claimed that there is no clear script for the Deputy President William Ruto-led Tangatanga team who are only interested in selfish pursuits.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the same fundraiser, Raila said the meeting between him and the Mount Kenya delegation at his Bondo home in\u00a0Siaya\u00a0County on Saturday was not meant to endorse him to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2022.<\/p>\n

Raila said \u201csome people\u201d had blown the visit by\u00a0Agikuyu\u00a0elders out of proportion, maintaining the main aim of the meeting was to unite Kenyans.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not true that I was endorsed as a presidential candidate in 2022. What we were discussing was how the handshake could reach the rest of Kenyans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He instead shifted his attention to the Building Bridges Initiative, saying its passage would be a big relief to Kenyans.<\/p>\n

Raila accused Ruto of hypocrisy, challenging him to stop fighting the government from within.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author:\u00a0ISAIAH GWENGI\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: Businessman Jimi Wanjigi has asked the Agikuyu community to join former Prime Minister Raila\u00a0Odinga\u2019s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) if they want him to ascend to power in 2022. Speaking during a church fundraiser at Bondo Anglican Church, Mr\u00a0Wanjigi\u00a0asked the community to join him in the party, which he described as his home. 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