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You are on your own, Nyachae tells MPs
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- Published on Monday, 04 June 2007 09:09
Nyachae told the MPs to stop banking on his support and to prepare to face competition at the nominations from other aspirants seeking to enter Parliament on the party’s ticket.
"Your own performance as an MP will ensure you win the party nomination. If your people reject you at the nominations, never come to me for favours. I will give the party ticket to whoever defeats you," Nyachae told eight MPs to their face.
He was speaking at Nyanturago Secondary School in Nyaribari- Masaba constituency, where the MPs, host Dr Hezron Manduku, said they were ready to face a nomination contest with other aspirants.
He told the MPs the party belonged to the members who will pick its leaders.
During the last General Election, many parliamentary aspirants who had joined the Ford-People cried foul, saying losers had been given the party’s ticket. Those who won at the 2002 nomination were easily elected to Parliament, thanks to the Nyachae-for-president euphoria.
Losers ganged up and joined the opposition and are now bracing for a battle with the MPs, through the ODM-Kenya and Narc-Kenya.
Narc-Kenya aspirants in the region are led by former nominated MP Mrs Catherine Nyamato while South Mugirango MP Omingo Magara is the ODM Kenya torch bearer.
Magara and Nyamato said the Kisii region was not a preserve of Ford-People and told Nyachae and his party to prepare for a major political battle in the General Election.
"We are tired of Nyachae’s criticism of other parties. He should focus on how best to market his party and leave us alone," Nyamato said, on Saturday.
Magara, who is also the ODM-Kenya national treasurer, dismissed Nyachae and his party as old fashioned. He said the party’s approach to national issues through a tribal political party card would not succeed.
"Nyachae is busy trying to sell Ford-People as a Kisii community party, but we are telling him that the Kisii are past tribal politicians and are comfortable in ODM-Kenya, a party with a national outlook," said Magara.
Kitutu-Chache MP Mr Jimmy Angwenyi led the MPs in condemning the media for "carrying out a hate campaign against them and their party in Kisii".
Other leaders who censured the media were planning minister Mr Henry Obwocha, and MPs Mr Joel Onyancha, Mr Okeri Masanya, Mr Mwancha Okioma and Mr Zebedeo Opore.
Nyachae led his MPs and civic leaders in vowing to rally the community behind president Kibaki’s re election.
