Kenya Deputy President’s Ambition suffers As OKA Goes to Mountain Kenya For Raila Odinga

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Kenya Deputy President’s Ambition<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-admin&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reports that on Monday&comma; October 11&comma; 2021&comma; Kenya <strong>Deputy<&sol;strong> President&comma; William Ruto&OpenCurlyQuote;s presidential bid&comma; suffered a severe blow after One Kenya Alliance&comma; OKA&comma; principals agreed to support former Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s presidential bid in 2022&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;OKA chiefs include Amani National Congress&comma; ANC&comma; party leader&comma; Musalia Mudavadi&comma; his Wiper counterpart&comma; Kalonzo Musyoka&comma; KANU Chairman&comma; Gideon Moi&comma; Ford Kenya Party leader&comma; Moses Wetangula and former Lugari MP&comma; Cyrus Jirongo&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The next Kenyan general election is scheduled to take place on 9 August 2022&period; Voters will elect the President&comma; members of the National Assembly and Senate&comma; county governors and members of the 47 county assemblies&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to a news report&comma; the five have signed a pre-election deal with Raila Odinga&comma; who has promised to appoint them to senior positions in his government once elected as President in 2022&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The five leaders have been promised positions of a running mate&comma; Speaker of the Senate&comma; Speaker of the National Assembly&comma; Chief Minister&comma; and other powerful seats in the government&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Raila Odinga is also the leader of the Orange Democratic Movement&comma;ODM&comma; a centre-left political party in Kenya&period; It is the successor of a grassroots people&&num;8217&semi;s movement which was formed during the 2005 Kenyan constitutional referendum campaign&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;To demonstrate their seriousness&comma; information has it that the OKA principals are attending a prayer service at Around the Globe Deliverance Ministry church in Thika after which they are expected to address area residents&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The OKA rally in President Uhuru Kenyatta&&num;8217&semi;s backyard of Kiambu comes barely hours after they met the president over the crafting of what has been dubbed a super alliance ahead of the 2022 General Elections&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;They are hot on the heels of ODM leader Raila Odinga who toured the voter-rich region a fortnight ago&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The OKA leaders toured Kakamega County County to kick off their joined campaigns for the presidency before they pick a flag bearer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;