ANC women launch 2022 campaigns for Mudavadi

Amani National Congress (ANC) women leaders at a press conference at Imperial Hotel in Kisumu on January 27, 2018. They resolved to start a nationwide campaign for their leader Musalia Mudavadi ahead of the 2022 presidential elections. PHOTO | JUSTUS OCHIENG | NATION MEDIA GROUP

What you need to know:

  • ANC women leaders said party leader Musalia Mudavadi is the only hope for Kenya.
  • They said he would transform the country, fight graft and improve the economy.

It is never too early to start resonates with the actions of the Amani National Congress (ANC) women’s league, which has begun presidential campaigns in earnest.

On Saturday, the women leaders launched a nationwide campaign for party leader Musalia Mudavadi ahead of the 2022 Presidential race, saying he is the best leader for Kenya.

OUR ONLY HOPE

The women leaders, among them woman representatives and MCAs from across the country, converged in Kisumu where they made the declaration to launch campaigns for Mr Mudavadi’s presidential bid.

In a statement, they said that with Mr Mudavadi at the helm of the country’s leadership, “Kenya will resume the journey to respectability among the nations of the world.”

“We are certain that the only hope for Kenya getting back its lost glory and restoring itself to a vibrant economy must start by having the right leaders in the right place,” said the statement read by Ms Immaculate Shamalla, an MCA from Trans-Nzoia County.

“We the women in ANC assembled here in Kisumu today and drawn from across the Republic of Kenya, do hereby endorse Musalia Mudavadi for this noble assignment.

“We further endorse him as our solitary presidential candidate for the 2022 elections.”

BEST LEADER

Speaking during the closure of the two-day meeting in Kisumu, Kholera MCA Godliver Omondi (Kakamega County) said they were saddened by the circus and disorder “that our country has sunk into.”

“Our nation runs on unending negative energy of wasteful conflict that Mr Mudavadi will be well-placed to address and drive our country to peace and stability.”

Ms Shamalla added that: “We are super energised to drum up support for him from hut-to-hut, door-to-door, man-to-man, woman-to-woman. We will go everywhere in the country, asking mothers of Kenya and all Kenyans to join us in this noble quest of bringing order back to Kenya and Kenya back to order, through Hon. Musalia Mudavadi.”

SAVIOUR

Ms Teresiah Muoki from Kwale County and Ms Evelyn Mwanzo from Kakamega said Kenya was bleeding and needed a leader like Mr Mudavadi to save it from corruption and poverty.

“Our people lack very the basic needs that should make a human being live wholesomely. We, the women in ANC, are deeply concerned about this as the mothers of this nation,” Ms Muoki said.

Ms Mwanzo said Kenya’s misery resulted from politics of exclusion and manipulation, leading to an authoritarian executive.

“The Executive is strangling and negating the progressive promises in our Constitution that was Wanjiku-driven. It is no secret that our nation is in pieces and there is need to restore the country to order,” she added.