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Raila takes campaign to Gusiiland

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Published on Monday, 19 September 2011 18:38

After touring several parts of the country in readiness for next years General Election, Prime Minister Raila Odinga returned to his home turf of Nyanza to drum up support.

Raila headed to South Nyanza on Saturday evening after soliciting for support in Maasai-land at a rally in Kilgoris.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga (left) with Public Works Minister Chris Obure after attending Mass at Gekano Parish in Nyamira County, on Sunday.

In Kisii, he held a closed-door meeting with grassroots leaders at a local hotel where he spent the night.

On Sunday, the PM took his campaign to Nyamira County where he joined the faithful of Gekano Catholic Church in Mass before meeting leaders drawn from the ten Gusii constituencies.

"I have not come here to hold a public rally but to share. This time round, I decided to spend my time with you because when I am here, I feel at home," Raila said.

Exuding confidence after being endorsed for the presidency by local leaders, Raila said with the Constitution in place, next years polls would not feature tribal groupings.

Rather, it would be about competition among political parties.

"The political game has changed but others are still stuck with groupings like KKK when the Constitution has leveled the ground," he said.

Change in plan

Lately, the premier seems to have changed his game plan and has been focusing his attention on the Meru, Kisii and Masai votes.

Raila said the coalition Government had levelled the ground in readiness for the 2012 polls by sealing loopholes and that the process to put a new electoral team in place was on course to avert a repeat of what happened in 2007.

He also used the occasion to drum up support for his party and asked the Kitutu Masaba electorate to give ODM the parliamentary