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<\/div>Ndaragwa MP Jeremiah Kioni during a National Assembly special sitting.<\/strong> [David Njaaga, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Ndaragwa Member of Parliament Jeremiah Kioni holds that Musalia Mudavadi\u2019s chances of clinching the presidency in subsequent elections are now slimmer, following his surprise pact with Deputy President William Ruto on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n Kioni, who spoke in an interview on TV 47<\/em> Wednesday morning, said Ruto is only playing warm-up to Mudavadi. <\/p>\n \u201cI am not saying that Musalia\u2019s goose is cooked forever, but he has been set back,\u201d Kioni said.\n<\/p>\n The lawmaker, who was Mudavadi\u2019s running-mate in the 2013 General Election, said he (Mudavadi) ought to be more cautious in his dealings with the DP.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were very measured on what we were releasing out back then. We were cautious and very careful, but he now seems to have lost that trait,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n Terming Ruto as a \u201ccrafty politician\u201d, Kioni said the DP is being very calculated, and is only now planning post a \u201cRaila presidency\u201d, which puts the Amani National Congress (ANC) leader on the back-end over his decision to join hands with him.\n<\/p>\n “I want to tell Musalia that his chances were best behind Raila Odinga. He is a president this country would have wanted to have one day but he is now beginning to lose that opportunity.\u201d <\/p>\n In a much anticipated political \u201cearthquake\u201d on Sunday, Mudavadi publicly embraced DP William Ruto, a move that will likely shake up current political alignments.\n<\/p>\n The ANC leader pointed out that Azimio la Umoja, or rather ODM leader Raila Odinga, would not be part of his political journey going forward.\n<\/p>\n Mudavadi\u2019s own One Kenya Alliance (OKA) was ironically the first victim of the so-called earthquake \u2013 thanks to internal rifts leading to the walkout of co-principals, Wiper and Kanu party leaders, Kalonzo Musyoka and Gideon Moi, as well as Jimi Wanjigi, the ODM presidential hopeful, from ANC\u2019s National Delegates Conference at the Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ndaragwa MP Jeremiah Kioni during a National Assembly special sitting. [David Njaaga, Standard] Ndaragwa Member of Parliament Jeremiah Kioni holds that Musalia Mudavadi\u2019s chances of clinching the presidency in subsequent elections are now slimmer, following his surprise pact with Deputy President William Ruto on Sunday. Kioni, who spoke in an interview on TV 47 Wednesday […]<\/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-919649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919649","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=919649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}