GO FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN 2012, ASSISTANT MINISTER GEORGE KHANIRI TELLS MUDAVADI
Kanini Evans Kariuki
December 27, 2010
A prominent Kenyan leader and assistant minister for Information and Communications George Khaniri has petitioned Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi to vie for the presidency in 2012.
Khaniri who is the MP for Hamisi and who has declared interest for the coveted Senator ship post in the Vihiga County, said Mudavadi stood a better chance of being elected President by Kenyans after the expiry of President Kibaki´s term in 2012.
Kenyans, he emphasized, yearned to see Mudavadi announce his candidature for the number one perch after Kibaki.
Khaniri said Mudavadi would only succeed in ruining his chances and letting the Luhya community down in their aspirations to lead the country if he chooses to stick behind Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
"Tumekataza Mudavadi na hatutaki kusikia mambo yo yote kwamba anataka kuwa running mate" (we do not want to hear anything to the effect that Mudavadi is a running mate), stressed Khaniri.
He contended that Mudavadi was obliged to rival Raila for the country's top leadership and count on Luo support in as much the same way as Raila enjoyed luhya support in 2007.
The assistant minister regretted that at number two in the population of Kenya, the Luhya community could still " be running mate!"
He warned that should Mudavadi be overcome by the feeling that he is not man enough, he had no option but to pave way for more courageous, bold and daring leaders from Luhya land.
Khaniri was addressing farmers in Givoki and Ivola areas of his Hamisi constituency where he delivered CDF cheques to the tune of Sh300,000 in aid of renovation of Givoki and Ivola Tea buying centres.
The assistant minister reiterated that he would vie for the Senator ship in the newly established Vihiga County.
He urged Hamisi voters to be steadfast in their support for him.
"I need your full support for me and you to wrestle with our populous neighbors," he pointed out.
Khaniri urged upcoming politicians to contest for the Hamisi MP's seat which he will have vacated to represent them at a higher level.
He noted that it would be absurd for them to vie for Governorship at a time when he was eyeing the Senator ship as such greed could easily cost the people of Hamisi a proper say in the management and running of the County.
The focused and visionary politician however indicated that he would not guide voters on whom to elect to replace him.
He would allow them a chance, he asserted, to scrutinize interested candidates and pick one from the crowd.
"Wote ni watoto wenu. Sitawambia mchague nani lakini ninyi wenyewe mutamua" (they are all your children. I will not tell you to elect so and so but you will pick the right representative yourself), Khaniri concluded amid wild cheers and feet-thumping from the crowd.
Khaniri who is the MP for Hamisi and who has declared interest for the coveted Senator ship post in the Vihiga County, said Mudavadi stood a better chance of being elected President by Kenyans after the expiry of President Kibaki´s term in 2012.
Kenyans, he emphasized, yearned to see Mudavadi announce his candidature for the number one perch after Kibaki.
Khaniri said Mudavadi would only succeed in ruining his chances and letting the Luhya community down in their aspirations to lead the country if he chooses to stick behind Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
"Tumekataza Mudavadi na hatutaki kusikia mambo yo yote kwamba anataka kuwa running mate" (we do not want to hear anything to the effect that Mudavadi is a running mate), stressed Khaniri.
He contended that Mudavadi was obliged to rival Raila for the country's top leadership and count on Luo support in as much the same way as Raila enjoyed luhya support in 2007.
The assistant minister regretted that at number two in the population of Kenya, the Luhya community could still " be running mate!"
He warned that should Mudavadi be overcome by the feeling that he is not man enough, he had no option but to pave way for more courageous, bold and daring leaders from Luhya land.
Khaniri was addressing farmers in Givoki and Ivola areas of his Hamisi constituency where he delivered CDF cheques to the tune of Sh300,000 in aid of renovation of Givoki and Ivola Tea buying centres.
The assistant minister reiterated that he would vie for the Senator ship in the newly established Vihiga County.
He urged Hamisi voters to be steadfast in their support for him.
"I need your full support for me and you to wrestle with our populous neighbors," he pointed out.
Khaniri urged upcoming politicians to contest for the Hamisi MP's seat which he will have vacated to represent them at a higher level.
He noted that it would be absurd for them to vie for Governorship at a time when he was eyeing the Senator ship as such greed could easily cost the people of Hamisi a proper say in the management and running of the County.
The focused and visionary politician however indicated that he would not guide voters on whom to elect to replace him.
He would allow them a chance, he asserted, to scrutinize interested candidates and pick one from the crowd.
"Wote ni watoto wenu. Sitawambia mchague nani lakini ninyi wenyewe mutamua" (they are all your children. I will not tell you to elect so and so but you will pick the right representative yourself), Khaniri concluded amid wild cheers and feet-thumping from the crowd.
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