Others included the Pamoja African Alliance of Senate Speaker Amason Kingi Attorney General Justin Muturi of the Democratic Party (DP) and Maendeleo Chap Chap (MCC) leader Alfred Mutua now Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary...
Alfred Mutua former government spokesman and former Machakos County Governor landed the Foreign and Diaspora Affairs ministry...
Ruto bought off former Odinga allies such as Musalia Mudavadi Alfred Mutua and Moses Wetang'ula new National Assembly speaker leaving some gaps in the market...
The 11 other parties in the KK coalition are also set to be allocated government posts based on the number of their parliamentary and county seats led by outgoing Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi and his Pamoja African Alliance (PAA) party and the Maendeleo Chap Chap of Alfred Mutua from Ukambani both of whom also defected from the Odinga camp earlier this year...
Despite the three Ukambani counties voting heavily for Odinga Alfred Mutua had demanded a Cabinet Secretary post in a ministry dealing with infrastructure or public utilities and has been lined up as Mudavadi's deputy we hear (AC Vol 62 No 23 Cash takes on the kingpins)...
Kenya Kwanza has more micro-party allies in Kikuyu-speaking areas (Moses Kuria's Chama cha Kazi (CCK) William Kabogo's Tujibebe Mwangi Kiunjuri's The Service Party) and a late pro-Ruto entrant in Kamba areas in Alfred Mutua's Maendeleo Chap Chap but none have guaranteed seats...
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Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua's Maendeleo Chap Chap (MCC) party and his Kilifi counterpart Amason Kingi's Pamoja African Alliance (PAA) have ditched Odinga's camp to join Ruto's Kenya Kwanza after Azimio officials refused to provide them with copies of the coalition agreement they had signed...
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Alfred Mutua (who had launched his own presidential bid in September) Charity Ngilu and Kivutha Kibwana from Machakos Kitui and Makueni respectively who have all called for regional kingpin Musyoka of the One Kenya Alliance to join Odinga...
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Kalonzo also faces rebellion from the three Kamba county governors who have declared for Odinga: Alfred Nganga Mutua from Machakos; Kivutha Kibwana of Makueni; and Charity Kaluki Ngilu from Kitui...
Kamanda and Waiguru have urged the small number of Kikuyu voters in Kibra to back Okoth while three Kamba county governors – Charity Ngilu Kivutha Kibwana and Alfred Mutua – addressed a predominantly Kamba audience at Kibra on 2 November praising Odinga and Okoth (AC Vol 60 No 19 Bridge of sighs)...
Jubilee's Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko is already positioning himself as a rival to one of the Nasa co-founders Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka as leader of the Kamba community putting him on a collision course with Alfred Mutua the new governor of Machakos County...
With these handouts and wads of campaign cash under the table Jubilee brought four more smaller parties under its wing at Bomas: the once ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) under Gideon Moi (son of ex-President Daniel arap Moi) the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (under Martha Karua) Maendeleo Chap Chap (led by Machakos County's talented Governor Alfred Nganga Mutua) and the predominantly Mandera-Somali Economic Freedom Party...
