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<\/div>\nFrom Left: Mvita MP Abdulswamad Sharrif Nassir, ODM leader Raila Odinga, and businessman Suleiman Shahbal. <\/strong>[David Gichuru, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Mvita Member of Parliament Abdulswamad Shariff Nassir will run for the Mombasa Governor seat on an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) ticket.\n<\/p>\n Nassir will be unrivaled for the party\u2019s ticket, after businessman Suleiman Shahbal stepped down in his favour, in a deal brokered by ODM chief Raila Odinga and Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho. <\/p>\n Mohamed Faki will contest for the Senate seat again on an ODM ticket.\n<\/p>\n Joho noted that both Nassir and Shahbal are worthy and solid contenders, adding that what\u2019s now left is to hit the ground running.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t take for granted the magnanimity expressed by Shahbal. He is a strong and solid candidate but for purposes of unity he decided to support Nassir,\u201d the County chief said.\n<\/p>\n [embedded content]\n<\/p>\n Although being Mombasa Governor had been a dream of his for 10 years, businessman Shahbal said the needs of Mombasa residents come before his own. <\/p>\n \u201cI have been aspiring to be governor for 10 years. But it is not important that I lead those changes\u2026what\u2019s important is those changes need to happen,\u201d he said, promising to work hand in hand with Nassir.\n<\/p>\n The Mvita MP on his part said he would include Shahbal in his campaign and merge their manifestos.\n<\/p>\n \u201cHe is a worthy competitor and we all wanted a good Mombasa. I know Baba you said you\u2019ll take him to national politics but we will need him to work in Mombasa,\u201d the lawmaker stated.\n<\/p>\n Nassir and Shahbal were battling for the ODM ticket in the Mombasa governor race.\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \nShare this story<\/b>\n<\/p>\n From Left: Mvita MP Abdulswamad Sharrif Nassir, ODM leader Raila Odinga, and businessman Suleiman Shahbal. [David Gichuru, Standard] Mvita Member of Parliament Abdulswamad Shariff Nassir will run for the Mombasa Governor seat on an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) ticket. Nassir will be unrivaled for the party\u2019s ticket, after businessman Suleiman Shahbal stepped down in his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1058667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}KEEP READING<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n
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