{"id":83707,"date":"2024-08-27T11:08:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T11:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/27\/mudavadi-says-mfa-razor-sharp-focused-on-railas-auc-candidacy\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T11:08:41","slug":"mudavadi-says-mfa-razor-sharp-focused-on-railas-auc-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/mudavadi-says-mfa-razor-sharp-focused-on-railas-auc-candidacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mudavadi says MFA \u2018razor-sharp\u2019 focused on Raila\u2019s AUC candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 27 \u2014 Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs Musalia Mudavadi has assured the Ministry\u2019s commitment to ensure the sucess of Kenya\u2019s campaign for Africa Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the official launch of Raila Odinga\u2019s AUC candidacy on Tuesday, Mudavadi said a campaign strategy is in place assuring of the Government unwavering support to the candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Mudavadi said Odinga embodies the ideals of a people-centered visionary leadership that the AUC needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past months, we have seen a relentless commitment to advance Kenya\u2019s candidacy driven by Raila Odinga\u2019s determination. He is a leader who has tirelessly championed the course of Africa\u2019s unity, and progress,\u201d Mudavadi said.<\/p>\n<p>Mudavadi said highly experienced and knowledgeable individuals will lead campaigns to ensure a well-coordinated, targeted and result-oriented output.<\/p>\n<p>He said Odinga\u2019s candidacy is not only a nation\u2019s mission but a continental as he will represent the Africa\u2019s interests as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the African people, Kenya represents to you who will give the AU visibility and a deserving place in global discourse,\u201d Mudavadi said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the candidate will intensify his continental engagement by travelling far and wide to present himself to the leadership of African states led by Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs Korir Sing\u2019oei.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">February 2025 vote<\/h2>\n<p>Odinga will be battling for the seat with several candidates from the region who are eying the seat including the Seychelles\u2019 Vincent Meriton\u00a0and Djibouti\u2019s Mahmoud Ali Youssouf.<\/p>\n<p>The African Union unanimously adopted the right of the Eastern Africa region to produce the next Chairperson of the African Union Commission on March 25.<\/p>\n<p>The AU will apply the principle of inter-regional rotation in the election slated for February 2025, giving a chance to fourteen States in the Eastern bloc to produce the Commission Chairperson.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya is hoping to build momentum to the Februarry 2025 voting by securing endorsements from a majority of the States withing the Eastern region bloc.<\/p>\n<p>Nairobi has so far bagged several endorsements including from Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Sudan and Ghana.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 27 \u2014 Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs Musalia Mudavadi has assured the Ministry\u2019s commitment to ensure the sucess of Kenya\u2019s campaign for Africa Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson. Speaking during the official launch of Raila Odinga\u2019s AUC candidacy on Tuesday, Mudavadi said a campaign strategy is in place assuring [&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-83707","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\/83707","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=83707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}