{"id":919682,"date":"2022-01-26T11:16:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T11:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/musalia-mudavadi-will-go-to-the-ballot-says-anc\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T11:16:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T11:16:54","slug":"musalia-mudavadi-will-go-to-the-ballot-says-anc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/26\/musalia-mudavadi-will-go-to-the-ballot-says-anc\/","title":{"rendered":"Musalia Mudavadi will go to the ballot, says ANC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><strong><\/p>\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\/qfaj8ubunm41hgpubm61f0f2d93308c.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\"><strong>Musalia Mudavadi at ANC offices in Amani House on January 24, 2022. <\/strong>[David Gichuru, Standard]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Amani National Congress (ANC) has resolved that their party leader Musalia Mudavadi will not sacrifice his presidential ambitions for Deputy President William Ruto candidature.\n<\/p>\n<p>During the party\u2019s Parliamentary Group meeting where Mudavadi was present,\u00a0ANC MPs maintained that Ruto\u2019s presence in the party\u2019s National Delegates Conference (NDC) on January 23 should not be interpreted as support for the DP\u2019s presidential bid.\n<\/p>\n<p>They said the move during the NDC was just the first step of pulling in more partners they can work with to propel ANC campaign ahead of the August 9 election. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusalia Mudavadi remains our party\u2019s presidential candidate and we have presented him to Kenyans and nothing is going to stop that. Let it be known that as a party, we have agreed that Mudavadi is going for nothing less than the presidency,\u201d said Emuhaya MP Omboko Milemba.\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"PgIYlyjP12M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ANC Leader Musalia Mudavadi on why he split from OKA to go with Ruto\u2019s UDA | KIVUMBI 2022\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PgIYlyjP12M?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>However, he said Mudavadi\u2019s \u201cearthquake\u201d dealt One Kenya Alliance (OKA) a tough blow that fractured the outfit whose principals Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka and Baringo Senator Gideon Moi, had plans of working together towards the elections.\n<\/p>\n<p>ANC is holding a joint rally with UDA today as it launches its campaigns to different parts of the country including rallies in Bungoma County on Friday, January 28.\n<\/p>\n<p>The party also announced a campaign programme starting today. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>[email\u00a0protected]\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/politics\/article\/2001435593\/musalia-mudavadi-will-go-to-the-ballot-says-anc\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musalia Mudavadi at ANC offices in Amani House on January 24, 2022. [David Gichuru, Standard] Amani National Congress (ANC) has resolved that their party leader Musalia Mudavadi will not sacrifice his presidential ambitions for Deputy President William Ruto candidature. During the party\u2019s Parliamentary Group meeting where Mudavadi was present,\u00a0ANC MPs maintained that Ruto\u2019s presence 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-919682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919682","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=919682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}