{"id":920941,"date":"2022-01-30T20:36:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T20:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/30\/kenya-kwanza-flag-bearer-to-be-known-soon-says-mudavadi\/"},"modified":"2022-01-30T20:36:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T20:36:39","slug":"kenya-kwanza-flag-bearer-to-be-known-soon-says-mudavadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/30\/kenya-kwanza-flag-bearer-to-be-known-soon-says-mudavadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Kwanza flag bearer to be known soon, says Mudavadi"},"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\/mpqduj7rspsj61f6bb8e94620.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>ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi addressing faithful at St Faith ACK Church, Ongata Rongai. January 30, 2022.<\/strong> [Courtesy]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Kenyans will have to wait a bit longer to know who will be the Kenya Kwanza Alliance presidential candidate for the August 9 General Election.\n<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the media after a church service at St Faith Parish, ACK in Rongai, today, Amani National Congress (ANC) party leader Musalia Mudavadi said picking the candidate was work in progress. <\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"MIlzJiIGDnA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;&#039;I stood with the people&#039;&#039;, Mudavadi defends his decision not to support Raila Odinga\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MIlzJiIGDnA?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>The coalition brings together Deputy President William Ruto&#8217;s United Democratic Alliance, ANC and Moses Wetang&#8217;ula&#8217;s Ford-Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Mudavadi said the alliance\u2019s task at the moment is to unite Kenyans and ensure peaceful elections.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, ultimately we shall name the candidate who will fly the Kenya Kwanza flag in the elections. However, at the moment our priority is to unite Kenyans and ensure we have a peaceful election,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defended his decision<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Mudavadi defended his decision to team up with Ruto saying it was well thought out after wide consultations within ANC.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ANC party is going to the August 9 elections with a clarion call of reviving the economy through renegotiating and rescheduling of the country\u2019s public debts,&#8221; said the ANC leader.\n<\/p>\n<p>Under the Uchumi Bora, Pesa Mfukoni clarion call, ANC has synchronised its call with UDA&#8217;s bottom-up economic model where it will seek to empower the most affected Kenyans through interest-free loans and grants to jump-start businesses.\n<\/p>\n<p>Mudavadi maintained that he joined hands with Ruto after the realisation that the One Kenya Alliance (OKA) where he was a co-principal with Kalonzo Musyoka of Wiper party, Gideon Moi of Kanu and Wetangula, was a government project meant to stall his ambitions.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/politics\/article\/2001436001\/kenya-kwanza-flag-bearer-to-be-known-soon-says-mudavadi\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi addressing faithful at St Faith ACK Church, Ongata Rongai. January 30, 2022. [Courtesy] Kenyans will have to wait a bit longer to know who will be the Kenya Kwanza Alliance presidential candidate for the August 9 General Election. Addressing the media after a church service at St Faith Parish, ACK 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-920941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920941","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=920941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}