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Owalo ditches Mudavadi for Ruto

Owalo ditches Mudavadi for Ruto

Former ANC member Eliud Owalo has officially joined Deputy President William Ruto’s Tangatanga faction of Jubilee of the 2022 elections.

The move comes barely a month after he resigned from Musalia Mudavadi’s ANC party claiming he felt it was “imperative to create ample space within the Party”.

While joining the Hustler’s camp, Owalo stated that Kenya needs a decisive; progressive; responsive; all-inclusive, and participatory leadership anchored on people-centric values.

“Based on the foregoing and informed by a contextual analysis of all the probable 2022 Presidential candidates, I have with effect from today made a deliberate and conscious decision to stand with Kenyans by pursuing my political interests and aspirations within the ambit of the “Hustler” Political Matrix,” Owalo said.
The former ODM member and close ally to Raila Odinga also delved into the debate where he said he did not see reason for amending the constitution

“My honest opinion is that our problem really is not a bad constitution but lack of enforcement and political goodwill and capture of the state by a few individuals in total disregard to the interests of the Kenyan majority.” he added.

Owalo who unsuccessfully ran for Kibra parliamentary seat in November last year said referendum call is a scheme by a ‘few select and privileged families’ to unilaterally decide the leadership of Kenyans.

In a statement, Owalo said he is vehemently opposed to and do not subscribe to the school of thought that two or three families should selfishly scheme to rotate the leadership of this country among themselves as a means of perpetuating themselves in power and serving their egocentric economic interests.
He urged kenyans to collectively forge unity of purpose to save the country from the current economic and political quagmire.