Nairobi governor Evans Kidero. Photo/the-star.co.ke
Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko has been crowned a Kamba elder and given blessings to win the Nairobi governor seat in the August 8 polls.
Boniface Kilonzo, chair of the Clans Governing Council, said elders made the decision based on Sonko's good deeds to the people of Nairobi and beyond.
"With this blessing, you should get the Nairobi governor because it is what you deserve. You are a man of good history because we have seen you work for the people of Nairobi without discrimination of tribe or class," he said during the ceremony at Mua farm on Wednesday.
Kilonzo dismissed a group of Kamba leaders who recently endorsed incumbent Governor Evans Kidero at a rally in Nyayo Stadium.
He said the group, which was led by Machakos Senator Johnston Muthama, did not represent the community's position.
"My council is the only body with the responsibility to crown anyone as an elder of this community, so I don't know which community those who went to crown Kidero were representing," he said.