Wako denies backing Ojaamong for 2017

What you need to know:

  • Senator Amos Wako and Funyula MP Paul Otuoma denied having met Governor Ojaamong to discuss the 2017 gubernatorial race.
  • Mr Otuoma accused the governor of using propaganda to win political sympathy insisting that he was in the gubernatorial race until the end.

Two Busia County politicians have dismissed reports that they met Governor Sospeter Ojaamong and resolved to support his re-election next year.

Senator Amos Wako and Funyula MP Paul Otuoma termed the news as baseless saying at no one time did they meet Mr Ojaamong to discuss the 2017 gubernatorial race.

Mr Wako told the Nation that though he met Mr Ojaamong last week, it was after the governor had been grilled by the Senate Public Accounts Committee over misappropriation of funds by the county government for the financial year 2013/14.

“After the meeting with the committee, we met at the parking lot for about three minutes and discussed various issues affecting our county,” said the former Attorney-General.

“The issue of supporting him or any other candidate or matter of politics was neither brought up nor discussed,” he said.

USING PROPAGANDA

On his part, Mr Otuoma accused the governor of using propaganda to win political sympathy insisting that he was in the gubernatorial race until the end.

“I made a public declaration to contest the gubernatorial seat, so why should I make such a decision in private and since when did Mr Ojaamong start being my spokesperson?” Posed the MP.

Last weekend, the county boss while addressing worshippers at Namakoli Free Pentecostal Church in Budalangi Constituency, claimed to have had a meeting with Mr Wako and Mr Otuoma in which he alleged they resolved to back his re-election.

The Busia gubernatorial race has attracted several aspirants including former National Irrigation Board boss Dan Barasa, Kisumu county secretary Humphrey Nakitare, Agricultural Finance Corporation managing director Lucas Meso and former Nzoia Sugar MD Francis Oyatsi.