Thursday, August 11, 2011

Your unity will not shake me, Raila tells rivals

By Allan Kisia and Roselyn ObalaPrime Minister Raila Odinga has said he is ready to face presidential aspirants who have indicated they would pick one candidate to face him.
In an apparent reference to G-7 Raila said the group cannot shake his presidential ambitions.
"You can go round saying how you will unite and will pick one presidential candidate but you will still come to face me. I am waiting," he said.
And Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi, who spoke at the same function, said he was also in the presidential race.
"I also want to be president. Raila also wants the seat but there can be only one at a time," he said. Raila said ODM is still the party to beat and expressed confidence that it would form the next government.
"We will make sure that we beat our opponents with a margin that would not leave any doubt that we won the elections," he added. Raila claimed that G7 would have a problem picking a candidate who would face him.
He explained it with a parable illustrating the situation facing the G7. "Rats once had plan of putting a bell around the cat’s neck to alert them whenever danger lurked. However, no one volunteered to take up the task of tying up the bell around the cat’s neck," he said amid laughter.
Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Saboti MP Eugene Wamalwa and Eldoret North MP William Ruto, who are G7 members, have presidential ambitions.
The three have indicated they would pick one of them to go for the top seat.
Mr Wamalwa, who spoke earlier at the same function, told politicians not to underestimate him and gave the biblical example of the battle of David and Goliath.
They spoke during the burial of Leonida Mukonyi in Chegulo village in Kakamega North District. Mukonyi was Raila’s house help in his Nairobi residence, Karen.

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