Mombasa governor Ali Hassan Joho is loved and adored by ODM supporters. This is for his unwavering support for Raila Odinga. It is for this reason that some quarters have suggested for Baba to endorse Joho for presidency in 2022.
But there are some details that were not known to the public about governor 001. These details will make you love the ODM deputy leader even more.
According to self declared NRM General Miguna Miguna, Joho wanted Raila to be sworn in at Kilifi.
This was suggested during a committee meeting on November 28, 2017, at a top hotel in Westlands, where Joho had strongly suggested that the swearing in ceremony be held in Kilifi.
“He (Joho) said that the Mijikenda were warriors, just like the Turkana, Pokot or Samburu, and that if the police or any other state security agents tried to disrupt the event in Kilifi, ‘the Mijikenda would unleash hellfire on them,’” reads yet another excerpt.
Miguna further tells of how, on December 9, 2017, he was summoned to former Machakos Senator Johnston Muthama’s house where he spent five hours drafting the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party chief’s inaugural speech and oath.
He adds that, after the speech was reviewed and approved by both Muthama and Orengo, they were driven to prominent businessman Jimmy Wanjigi’s mansion in Muthaiga where he later learnt that they were supposed to swear in Mr. Odinga on that very day.
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He goes on to state that Mr. Odinga stepped outside for a phone call and returned ten minutes later saying his fellow National Super Alliance (NASA) co-principals Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetangula had insisted that they postpone the swearing in to a later date.
“As soon as he said that, Muthama passed me his mobile phone. ‘Breaking news! Raila’s swearing in on December 12 has been postponed,’ I read from the Nation mobile news alert. We looked at each other — Orengo, Jimmy and me. We were thunderstruck,” writes Miguna.