President Uhuru Kenyatta at a past event. Kitutu Masaba MP has said the president will be lucky to get 15 per cent of vote from the Gusii region. Photo/nation.co.ke
Several key allies of President Uhuru Kenyatta have ditched the Jubilee Party for ODM party that is led by the Opposition leader Raila Odinga.
Raila will today officially receive Kenya’s immediate former ambassador to UN-Habitat and one of Jubilee’s most strong supporters, Sam Ongeri.
Snatching away Ongeri from Jubilee is perceived as a significant move by ODM in helping consolidate the Gusii vote bloc for the Opposition.
Speaking on Sunday in Kisii, Kitutu Masaba Member of Parliament Timothy Bosire said the President promised the region’s residents many things but he has up to date done nothing tangible.
“If Uhuru gets 15 per cent from this region he will be lucky,” Bosire said.
“We are not fools anymore. The President was in Kisii, the larger Gusii, when he was looking for votes. He promised many things. To this day, there is nothing tangible. In Nyamira, there is nothing and when I say nothing it’s nothing. At the moment, he is struggling to find a hole through which he can come to look for votes,” he said.
Besides Ongeri, Kenya’s immediate former Ambassador to Tanzania, Chirau Mwakwere, who was Jubilee’s main man at the Coast in the 2013 polls also ditched the party to vie for the Kwale gubernatorial seat on the ODM ticket.
He was on Sunday received on the Lunga Lunga border by thousands of ODM die-hards drawn from across the country after giving his resignation as an envoy.
“Jubilee will not capture even a single post in Kwale,” said Mwakwere in his first address on the Kenya-Tanzania border.
“I want to clear the air, I have quit Jubilee and now I am with my people in NASA.”
Former Natioanal Assembly Speaker Kenneth Marende, who was offered a lavish job by the Jubilee government as Kenya Power chairman, is also drifting back to Raila.
He recently held a meeting with Raila at the opposition chief's Bondo rural home.