Amani National Congress party has come out to dispute the notion that its party leader Musalia Mudavadi has bowed out of the August 9 presidential election.
Speaking after holding the party’s Parliamentary Group meeting, ANC maintained that its leader Musalia Mudavadi will go all the way to the ballot as its flag bearer to face other contestants including DP William Ruto and ODM leader Raila Odinga.
Addressing the media after the meeting, Emuhuya MP Omboko Milemba said the meeting was meant to make it clear that Mudavadi’s presidential bid is on course.
“At the National Delegates meeting last weekend, our party leader was given the mandate to look for friends to partner in the journey to State House. Let it be known that as a party, we have agreed that Mudavadi is going for nothing less than the presidency,” Milemba said.
The party said that the presence of the Deputy President at the party’s NDC in Bomas should not be interpreted to mean that Mudavadi has shelved his ambitions for the top seat.
“Musalia Mudavadi remains our party’s presidential candidate for the August elections and we have presented him to Kenyans and nothing will stop that,” Milemba added.
The party’s position comes a few days after DP Ruto and ANC leader Mudavadi announced that they will work together towards the August elections.
Since the Bomas event speculations have been rife that the ANC leader will shelve his State House ambition in favor of DP Ruto.
The two parties have lined up a joint campaign program starting tomorrow in Nakuru, followed by a rally in Bungoma on Friday and Saturday they will be in Kirinyaga.
The PG meeting was chaired by ANC party leader Musalia Mudavadi and was attended by his deputy Abdi Yare, MPs Alfred Agoi, Kassim Tandanza, Omboko Milemba, Beatrice Adagala, Sakwa Bunyasi, Petronilla Were Malulu Injendi, and Ernest Kagesi.
