{"id":448152,"date":"2011-06-27T06:37:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T06:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/27\/ruto-to-lead-40-mps-in-tour-of-mombasa\/"},"modified":"2011-06-27T06:37:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T06:37:31","slug":"ruto-to-lead-40-mps-in-tour-of-mombasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/27\/ruto-to-lead-40-mps-in-tour-of-mombasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruto to Lead 40 MPs in Tour of Mombasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"26.5394736842\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nairobistar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nairobi Star<\/a> (Nairobi)<\/p>\n<p>Maureen Mudi<\/p>\n<p>24 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Eldoret North MP William Ruto is set to tour the Coast region and counter Prime Minister Raila Odinga&#8217;s visit weeks ago. Ruto will lead about 40 MPs to tour the region and drum up support for UDM for two days from July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Trade Minister Chirau Ali Mwakwere will lead the pack. Ruto has officially dumped Tourism Minister Najib Balala and picked Mwakwere as his point man in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Mwakwere accompanied Ruto and Uhuru during their recent tour to Uganda and Tanzania, where they met the respective presidents &#8211; Yoweri Museveni and Jakaya Kikwete.<\/p>\n<p>During Raila&#8217;s tour, Balala was reconciled with other Coast MPs including his long time rival MPs Ali Hassan Joho (Kisauni), Ramadhan Kajembe (Changamwe) and Masudi Mwahima (Likoni). Ruto will &#8216; hold a thanks-giving party after UDM won a civic seat in Kilifi recently.<\/p>\n<p>The MP is said to be optimistic that he will have the majority votes in Coast region, after getting support from Msambweni, Kwale, Kilifi and parts of Mombasa. &#8220;It is all a game of numbers and Ruto is set to maximize on the ODM weakness to pull leaders to his side, who will be pivotal to UDM come 2012,&#8221; a source said. The re-union between Balala and Raila has however been criticized as temporary and of no consequence. Balala, who was at one point Raila&#8217;s key ally in the region fell out with him and was replaced by Joho, ODM&#8217;s Organising Secretary.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106270050.html\" title=\"Ruto to Lead 40 MPs in Tour of Mombasa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ruto to Lead 40 MPs in Tour of Mombasa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Maureen Mudi 24 June 2011 Eldoret North MP William Ruto is set to tour the Coast region and counter Prime Minister Raila Odinga&#8217;s visit weeks ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":448153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-448152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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