The Nairobi senator Mike Sonko has warmly welcomed the water cabinet secretary Eugene Wamalwa to the highly coveted seat for Nairobi governorship.
“Any person has a right to vie for any seat in Nairobi irrespective of their ethnic affiliation because we live in a democratic country,” said Sonko.
“Eugene is therefore welcome to vie in the county’s governorship race because it is the people who will decide who carries the day in the 2017 elections,” said Sonko.
“I do not support Eugene’s candidature because I am also vying for the Nairobi governor seat. But I respect his interest in the seat and would be ready to face him in the ballot so that the people of Nairobi can decide,” said Senator Sonko.
“I wonder why some MPs have expressed outright opposition of Wamalwa’s candidature yet he is a Cabinet Secretary in the Jubilee Government and he may even have consulted the president on his ambitions and gotten the green light to vie.”
The endorsement was however rubbished by another group of MPs from Nairobi County on Monday who termed the announcement by their Jubilee counterparts as inconsequential.
They stated that the county has able people who can take the position, and does not need an ‘outsider’ at the helm.