Former Nominated MP Amina Abdalla can now breathe a sigh of relief following President Uhuru Kenyatta's move to appoint her to the government in his latest appointments.
According to the government gazette notice of June 6, 2017, the former lawmaker has been appointed as a board for the Coast Development Authority, a government parastatal.
The veteran politician who served as a Nominated MP from 2003 to 2017 lost in her quest for Mombasa Women Representative position in last year's poll where she came second behind ODM's Asha Hussein Mohammed.
In 2013, she tried her luck by vying for Kisauni MP seat on a TNA ticket but lost to ODM's Rashid Bedzimba.
Abdalla who has had her own political struggles since bursting into the limelight in 2002 when she supported the then KANU presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta (now the President) has been the face of Uhuru's Jubilee Party in Mombasa.
During the 2017 election, she was one of Uhuru's key campaigners in the pro-ODM and opposition region. And to many, her choice of the party might have contributed to her political struggles in Mombasa where she has failed to establish herself as a formidable force.