Saturday, March 19, 2011

Uhuru, Ruto to join Eugene in Bungoma


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Share/Save/Bookmark Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta heads to Bungoma tomorrow with Eldoret North MP William Ruto to cement their nascent alliance with Saboti MP Eugene Wamalwa.
Sources close Uhuru said Saturday's rally will unveil "the next President, Deputy President and leader of parliamentary majority in parliament after the 2012 general elections". "It is true we are coming to Bungoma for this one meeting with serious national political ramifications, to seal the fate of pretenders to the presidency and show the faces of new wielders of power in the country and a statement that Eugene is no longer a fresh term MP but a player in the big league," an aide to Kenyatta said.
The source who cannot be named said: "Uhuru, Ruto and Wamalwa are in this alliance to stay and we expect other MPs in their bandwagon to attend the rally and offer support for the important message for Kenyans from Bungoma."
Kenyatta, Ruto along with former police chief Hussein Ali, civil service boss Francis Mutahura, Tinderet MP Henry Kosgey and broadcaster Joshua Sang' have a date with ICC prosecutor Moreno Ocampo at the Hague in Netherlands on April 7.
The Bungoma rally is the first major political foray for Kenyatta, who with Wamalwa and Ruto now seek to eclipse Prime Minister Raila Odinga's ODM influence in Western province which has 24 parliamentary seats.
Wamalwa is seeking to upstage his equally ambitious Sirisia counterpart Moses Wetang'ula in the battle for support in the region as the later is poised to be crowned Ford-K party leader at Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi during a national delegates conference being attended by 1,200 people with Ford-K civic leaders invited as observers.
Reached on telephone, Wamalwa said the Bungoma rally was planned to take place when Ford-K allies of Wetang'ula will be at Bomas "to show who between Wamalwa and Wetang'ula has the numbers.. who the people are with in all this".
Bungoma mayor Barasa Mbinga said: "We have notified police and Nema of the rally and Eugene has the agenda for Saturday, but I can confirm to you that I am no longer in Ford-K and many more members are leaving the party to join Eugene's".
The Saboti MP said he had pulled out of the wrangles-ridden party and would tell his supporters which way to go during the Bungoma rally and promptly termed the Ford-K NDC "illegitimate with hand picked delegates". "Wetang'ula, like Napolean, can go ahead and crown himself in an illegitimate exercise surrounded by handpicked delegates, but the people are not with him, they are with us and the country will see the truth then," Wamalwa said.

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