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Murungi seen here with Uhuru Kenyatta and Kalonzo Musyoka/CFM-File

Kenya

Kiraitu party to back Uhuru’s presidency bid

“If we say you are our candidate today, please don’t you dare to tell us to fold the bus. We will support you… we will campaign for you but we will do it from the bus,” Murungi told the meeting with was attended by delegates from 44 counties.

The meeting involved six MPs mainly from the Meru region including Assistant Minister Peter Munya (Tigania East), Lenny Kivuti (Siakago), Emilio Kathuri (Manyatta), Silas Muriuki (Imenti North) and Ntoitha M’Mithiaru (Igembe North).

Kenyatta has been urging other parties including PNU, Assistant Minister Mwangi Kiunjuri’s GNU and Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi’s APK to join up with TNA instead of fielding candidates separately.

This has been met with resistance though it remains to be seen how PNU’s move will affect the decision by GNU and APK to go it alone.

TNA has been bolstered by the latest wins in Kangema and Kajiado North.

During Friday’s exercise some delegates from Mombasa and Machakos Counties abstained from voting complaining over irregularities as some non-delegates were allowed to cast their votes.

The Party of National Unity (PNU) will not field candidates in next year’s general elections but will instead participate in Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta’s The National Alliance (TNA) nomination process.

PNU became the first party that is allied to Mr Kenyatta to heed to his call to parties supporting his presidential bid to come under the TNA aegis.

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