Vihiga Senator George Khaniri has called for a Musalia Mudavadi and Raila Odinga unity pact ahead of the 2017 General Election, saying the differences between the two leaders cost them the presidency in the last General Election.
Khaniri, who was speaking at Chamakanga Friends Church in Sabatia sub-county where he led a fund raising in aid of Tusaidiane self-help group yesterday, said he would run for the presidency in 2022 in the event that the two leaders fail to agree and neither of them ascends to the presidency in the 2017 elections.
He dismissed the ban on fund raisers by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission as inconsequential, saying Constitution provided for a moratorium on harambees 8 months before an election.
By Arthur Asava
Source-mediamaxnetwork.co.ke/
About Musalia Mudavadi
Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi (born 21 September 1960) is a Kenyan politician and land economist who is currently serving as the Prime Cabinet Secretary of Kenya.
Until October 2022, he was also the party leader of the Amani National Congress (ANC), one of the founding political parties, of the Kenya Kwanza alliance. He served as the 7th Vice-President of Kenya in 2002 and Deputy Prime Minister (2008–2012), when he resigned to contest for the Presidency in the 2013 Kenyan general election and emerged third.
He was the deputy party leader of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) (2005–2012) and Party Leader of the United Democratic Forum Party (UDF) from May 2012 to July 2015.
Early life and education
Mudavadi, was raised in a Quaker Christian denomination family. He is of the ethnic Maragoli dialect, an extract of the populous Luhya community of western Kenya. After his late father Moses S. B. Mudavadi, he is the only other Kenyan politician who does not swear oaths of office because his faith forbids it.
Mudavadi schooled at Nairobi Primary School,then Jamhuri and Nairobi School for his A- levels and the University of Nairobi. He pursued a Bachelor of Arts(Land Economics) degree. For sports, he played rugby as a winger for his high school and university’s Mean Machine RFC. Source-https://en.wikipedia.org/
Khaniri calls for Mudavadi-Raila unity ahead of 2017 elections
