{"id":31667,"date":"2024-04-25T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T11:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/25\/i-am-in-the-race-for-nairobi-uda-chairperson-post-sakaja-affirms\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T11:03:50","slug":"i-am-in-the-race-for-nairobi-uda-chairperson-post-sakaja-affirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/i-am-in-the-race-for-nairobi-uda-chairperson-post-sakaja-affirms\/","title":{"rendered":"I am in the race for Nairobi UDA chairperson post, Sakaja affirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 25 \u2013 Nairobi Governor has remained firm in his stand to bid for the\u00a0Nairobi United Democratic Alliance(UDA) Chairmanship\u00a0stressing\u00a0that no amount of pressure will stop him from vying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview with Inooro TV during the \u2018Inooro Ruciini\u2019 show, Sakaja\u00a0refuted claims of experiencing pressure from the party to drop the bid, stressing that his only aim is to secure the seat and enable the party to be more united.<\/p>\n<p>Sakaja further stressed that his firm resilience to stand for a seat despite political pressure is the\u00a0key\u00a0catalyst that enabled him to\u00a0become victorious in\u00a0the Nairobi Gubernatorial seat last elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a leader who succumbs to pressure. If there was\u00a0pressure\u00a0I would not have been\u00a0governor\u00a0of Nairobi\u00a0and\u00a0I don\u2019t know where they assume it is coming from. I have heard the rumors, but there is no such thing.\u00a0what\u00a0I have said as a leader in this city is that I want a united party,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Sakaja has further affirmed that the party chairmanship race will cement the political muscle\u00a0of the party\u00a0and\u00a0he is ready to face anyone who will bid for the seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone in Nairobi has the right to come\u00a0and\u00a0we shall face each other so\u00a0that we\u00a0can create a strong party,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0comes days after the\u00a0Governor\u00a0declared\u00a0his candidature for the seat.\u00a0Sakaja will now face off with Embakasi North MP John Gakuya\u00a0who\u00a0had\u00a0also announced his interest in vying for the same position.<\/p>\n<p>Members of County Assembly (MCAs) allied to\u00a0UDA,\u00a0pledged to support the\u00a0Governor\u00a0in his\u00a0bid<\/p>\n<p>His declaration comes following UDA grassroots elections set to begin next Friday.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 25 \u2013 Nairobi Governor has remained firm in his stand to bid for the\u00a0Nairobi United Democratic Alliance(UDA) Chairmanship\u00a0stressing\u00a0that no amount of pressure will stop him from vying. Speaking during an interview with Inooro TV during the \u2018Inooro Ruciini\u2019 show, Sakaja\u00a0refuted claims of experiencing pressure from the party to drop the bid, stressing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}