Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta is scheduled to meet Kamukunji leaders in Eastleigh High School today as campaigns for the constituency by-election start. 
Uhuru, who is backing the PNU Alliance candidate Yussuf Hassan, is set to meet PNU councillors and a host of other leaders.
Immediate former area MP Simon Mbugu has now decided to support ODM's Ibrahim Ahmed popularly known as Johnny to spite PNU which he claims rigged him out in favour of Yusuf. Sources said Uhuru will also meet influential Kikuyu businessmen in Kamukunji who were allegedly angered by decision by the party to front Yussuf as their candidate against "one of their own". Kikuyus constitute more than 40 per cent in Kamukunji’s 130,000 registered voters.
Also invited in the meeting are second hand clothe dealers from Gikomba Market. Most of them are from Kiambu County. Hashim Kamau, who was the CDF chairman during Mbugua’s tenure, is also being sought by the Yussuf camp, as he is said to commands a lot of respect among women for his distribution of bursary funds. Contacted yesterday, Hashim said he was still consulting and will make his position known this week. Uhuru is said to have dispatched chief whip Johnstone Muthama to beseech Hashim who is his friend to support Yussuf.
According to Kimathi/Bahati ward councillor Bernard Mutura, the meeting is set to come up with strategies to retain the seat. Others in the race for the seat are t Ibrahim Ahmed of ODM and Brian Weke of Narc-Kenya. “We will be brainstorming on how best to retain the seat, I can assure you than Kukuyu’s have embraced Yussuf, as they were tired of Mbugua’s theatrics,” Mutura said. Mbugua has a number of loyal rowdy youths in the constituency who have been drifting towards Johnny.
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