Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho has been told to prepare to lose as Jubilee Party will “enter Mombasa in a big way”.
Kilifi North MP Gideon Mung’aro who is heading the Jubilee Party campaign team at the Coast, told Joho to prepare for a tough battle in the elections.
"Joho is daydreaming if he thinks the Jubilee Party will not win any seat at the Coast," he said yesterday.
The ODM rebel MP was responding to Joho’s remarks on Sunday that all the six Coast counties are opposition strongholds and any leader who decamps to Jubilee Party will lose the elections.
In a phone interview, the former Coast Parliamentary Group chairman said that Joho does not own Coast and doesn’t have the votes of the people in his pockets, so he should not think Coast people will be in the opposition for life.
The legislator said Jubilee Party will ensure Coast residents are not only in government next year, but they will have a key stake as decision making.
“We are not going to encourage our people to vote for the opposition. If people go for elections, they always aim to form the government. People do not go for elections to be in the opposition,” Mung’aro said as quoted by the star.
Joho and President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto have been at loggerheads over the Coast vote.
Mung’aro, former ODM minority chief whip, and the Mombasa governor are locked in a supremacy battle for the region’s leadership.