The remarks by incumbent Kitutu Masaba MP Timothy Bosire that his leading competitor Shadrack Mose drops his ambitions to go for speaker of county assembly has elicited yet another political duel between the two.
Bosire was quoted over the weekend at Machuririati area during a fundraising where he urged his competitor to drop his ambitions and support him and the ODM party to garner majority in the county assembly and subsequently get elected as the speaker.
Mr Mose, who was addressing mourners at Nyabuya village in Gesima, termed the remarks ‘irrelevant and demeaning’ and vowed to give the legislator a run for his money.
“God answers prayers and you can bear me witness that someone is tired with his job. I haven’t asked Bosire to help me get a different job and his remarks over the weekend are irrelevant and demeaning. I have never been campaigning to be a speaker, my aim is to work for people of Kitutu,” he said.
The Nairobi-based lawyer accused the incumbent of being authoritative and dictatorial contrary to what the ODM party represents.
“I am not an ODM member by Bosire is such a leader who wants things to happen by force and in his favour. He fears competition and that is why he is panicking. I am ready to face him and I am sure of toppling him,” he said.
He urged the legislator to work for all clans in the constituency whether they voted him or not in 2013 polls.
“I just want to ask him to serve people fairly whether they or they don’t support him. He has that tendency of discriminating perceived opposition areas but the issue of supporting me to be a speaker is his decision and not mine because I am strongly in the parliamentarian race,” Mose said.