{"id":915771,"date":"2022-01-12T21:13:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T21:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/democratic-alliance-party-kenya-reaps-big-from-defections\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T21:13:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T21:13:52","slug":"democratic-alliance-party-kenya-reaps-big-from-defections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/democratic-alliance-party-kenya-reaps-big-from-defections\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Alliance Party \u2013 Kenya reaps big from defections"},"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\/jmtqpbkl3vkn7lq0ah61df13a0a07f7.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>Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi, MP Kanduyi and party leader of Democratic Action Party Of Kenya<\/strong> [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Democratic Alliance Party \u2013 Kenya (DAP-K) officials yesterday hinted that former Rift Valley County Commissioner George Natembeya could contest the Trans Nzoia governor seat on the party&#8217;s ticket.\n<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the opening of DAP-K offices\u00a0at Chui House in Nairobi yesterday, party leader Wafula Wamunyinyi said Natembeya would be joining his party. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorge Natembea has announced he is joining DAP-K. We welcome him and we are ready to help him fulfill his ambition to be the next governor for Trans Nzoia,\u201d the Kanduyi MP told party members.\n<\/p>\n<p>Defence Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa, who attended the event, said: &#8220;The next governor of Trans Nzoia is on his way. He has called me to say he is on his way. Are you ready to receive him?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"8gs310QPrQU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#HojaZaWahariri Mazungumzo kuhusu uzinduzi wa chama kipya cha DAP-K\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8gs310QPrQU?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>Natembeya resigned yesterday to contest the Trans Nzoia governorship.\u00a0DAP-K also received defectors from Ford-Kenya including Trans Nzoia senator Michael Mbito and Kisumu West MP Olago Aluoch.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll those joining us can be assured that we will conduct a free and fair nomination,\u201d said Secretary-General Eseli Simiyu. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mx-auto col-12 row justify-content-between\">\n<div class=\"col-md-6 col-12 row border-right mb-4 p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-9 text-left\">\n<h5 class=\"politic-cat\">\n<b>Power outages hurt business <\/b><br \/>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Kenya Power is a monopoly from which much is expected. Unfortunately, it seems to be punching below its weight.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/politics\/article\/2001434239\/n-a\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi, MP Kanduyi and party leader of Democratic Action Party Of Kenya [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard] Democratic Alliance Party \u2013 Kenya (DAP-K) officials yesterday hinted that former Rift Valley County Commissioner George Natembeya could contest the Trans Nzoia governor seat on the party&#8217;s ticket. Speaking during the opening of DAP-K offices\u00a0at Chui House in [&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-915771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915771","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=915771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}