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<\/div>Mumbi Ngaru has worked with Raila Odinga for at least 20 years.<\/strong> [File, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Former East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) MP Mumbi Ngaru has revealed that ODM leader Raila Odinga said, in the run-up to 2007 polls, that, if elected Head of State, he\u2019ll warm up to Central Kenya, even though the region was inclined towards the then-President Mwai Kibaki.\n<\/p>\n Ngaru is Raila\u2019s Mt. Kenya region political adviser. <\/p>\n She made the revelations at the Mount Kenya University in Thika, where Odinga officially launched his nationwide presidential campaign.\n<\/p>\n \u201c[In the lead-up to the 2007 General Election], I asked him how he\u2019ll treat Mt. Kenya people if elected president. At the time, the region was overwhelmingly supporting Mwai Kibaki. Raila told me that he wasn\u2019t a vengeful person. He said he will treat Mt. Kenya fairly if elected as president,\u201d Ngaru said at the MKU main campus.<\/p>\n She says the Central Kenya region is now better-primed to support Odinga in his presidential quest.\n<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sure Raila has Mt. Kenya\u2019s interest at heart. He is best-suited to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta,\u201d said the former Thika mayor, who has worked with Odinga for 21 years.\n<\/p>\n Her stint as Thika mayor was from the year 2000 to mid-2003. <\/p>\n \u201cIf Raila was a bad person, and he dislikes members of our community as it has widely been claimed over the years, I would be the first person to ditch him,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n Ngaru has worked with Odinga since 2002 when she was the executive director of Odinga\u2019s then-Party the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).\n<\/p>\n After the 2005 referendum, she moved to the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) with Odinga.\n<\/p>\n She\u2019d, thereafter, be nominated to EALA as an MP for a period of five years before the former prime minister tapped her to serve as his political advisor.\n<\/p>\n Ngaru was at EALA between 2012 and 2017. <\/p>\n In his speech, Raila Odinga said the one-man, one-vote, one-shilling mantra that he was pushing for in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) changes was sufficient proof that he had Mt. Kenya people\u2019s interest at heart.\n<\/p>\n \u201cFor now, that reggae (BBI constitutional reforms push) has taken a half-time break. If elected president in the August 9 polls, I will revive it,\u201d he said in his address at the MKU main campus.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mumbi Ngaru has worked with Raila Odinga for at least 20 years. [File, Standard] Former East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) MP Mumbi Ngaru has revealed that ODM leader Raila Odinga said, in the run-up to 2007 polls, that, if elected Head of State, he\u2019ll warm up to Central Kenya, even though the region was inclined […]<\/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-916501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916501","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=916501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}