{"id":913566,"date":"2022-01-05T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T11:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/05\/western-is-behind-azimio-la-umoja-atwoli-says\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T11:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T11:44:50","slug":"western-is-behind-azimio-la-umoja-atwoli-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/western-is-behind-azimio-la-umoja-atwoli-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Western is behind Azimio la Umoja, Atwoli says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/nqhoaxwdapstel61d56b556ab50.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>COTU Secretary-General Francis Atwoli says entire Western Region supports Raila Odinga&#8217;s presidency.<\/strong> [File, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Central Organization of Trade Union Secretary-General Francis Atwoli has reiterated that the western region is in full support of Raila Odinga\u2019s presidential bid.\n<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid heightened campaigns by Deputy President William Ruto\u2019s UDA party across the region. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking from his Kilifi home on Wednesday, January 5, Atwoli claimed that the DP was being duped by some leaders from the region, who have promised to get him votes from the region in the August election.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Atwoli, the New Year\u2019s Eve Bukhungu 2 rally that he hosted was pivotal in showing who the region would support in the upcoming General Election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leaders of Western Kenya were seen on December 31,\u201d Atwoli said.\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"stH52wH7EhM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Raila Odinga&#039;s [FULL] speech during the Bukhungu II meeting in Kakamega\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/stH52wH7EhM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>He added that the western Kenya region will vote as a block, adding that the numerous rallies the DP has held in the area would not translate to votes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWestern Kenya will vote for candidates within Azimio la Umoja. Ruto\u2019s foot soldiers in the region have been taking him for a ride,\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cEven if he (Ruto) visited the region 20 times a week, he is not going to get any votes from there because he will not be able to convince anyone from the region to vote for him.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>On New Year\u2019s eve, the country\u2019s second in command hinted at a possible coalition with Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetangula after he said they were the only politicians in the region that he would prefer working with.\n<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, January 3, Ruto kicked off a tour of the Western region and Rift Valley where he is expected to address about 40 rallies.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ruto has in recent days been said to be courting one of the\u00a0One Kenya Alliance co-principals and ANC party leader Musalia Mudavadi in a bid to form a coalition. Mudavadi denied that he had met Ruto for coalition talks, \u201cNo formal invitation has come to me yet.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He said that he was free to meet everybody and when he holds any meeting with anyone he will not shy from telling Kenyans about it.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/politics\/article\/2001433512\/western-is-behind-azimio-la-umoja-atwoli-says\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COTU Secretary-General Francis Atwoli says entire Western Region supports Raila Odinga&#8217;s presidency. [File, Standard] Central Organization of Trade Union Secretary-General Francis Atwoli has reiterated that the western region is in full support of Raila Odinga\u2019s presidential bid. This comes amid heightened campaigns by Deputy President William Ruto\u2019s UDA party across the region. Speaking from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913566","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=913566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}