Westlands MP Tim Wanyonyi on Wednesday, April 20, met with businesswoman Agnes Kagure over the Nairobi gubernatorial race.
This was after Jubilee party leader President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday, April 19, summoned the two at the statehouse and appealed to them to step down and back Jubilee’s Polycarp Igathe for the city’s top job.
However, taking to his social media pages, Kagura said he held a breakfast meeting with the ODM lawmaker, in what appeared that the two will not give in to President Uhuru’s demands.
“Catching up with my friend Hon. Tim Wanyonyi for breakfast as we take stock and chart the way forward. Tunazidi kupanga na lazima itapangika. Ama vipi watu wangu?” Kagure said in a Tweet seen by Kivumbi.co.ke.
The two have met twice in less than a week, sending speculation they could opt to form a joint ticket for the gubernatorial race.
This, especially, considering the Jubilee party seems to have agreed with other affiliate parties in the Azimio-One Kenya alliance to front Polycarp Igathe for the top seat.
On Tuesday, April 19, the former Nairobi Deputy Governor, Polycarp Igathe, officially joined the city’s gubernatorial race ahead of the August 9, General Election.
Appearing on KTN News, Igathe announced that had resigned from his job at a local commercial bank to seek the Jubilee Party’s ticket that Agnes Kagure was also eying.
“I will be in the streets campaigning in Nairobi. I am not a project of anyone. I am the people’s project,” he said.
The announcement by Polycarp came after President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga held a meeting at State House on which the city gubernatorial politics topped the agenda.
MP Tim Wanyonyi, Polycarp Igathe, Nairobi governor Anne Kananu, and businessman Agnes Kagure were also in attendance.
It was widely reported that president Uhuru appealed to the other three city’s gubernatorial hopefuls to step down and back Polycarp Igathe to face off with Senator Johnson Sakaja of UDA in this year’s elections in a formation that would have seen the Westlands MP deputize Igathe
