We Want Joho To Be Your Successor. Coast ODM MP’s To Raila

Malindi MP Amina Mnyazi has asked Raila Odinga toallow deputy party leader Hassan Joho to take over the leadership of the party, should Raila Odinga become the new African Union Commission chairperson.

Speaking in Kilifi, Mnyazi however, said that the final decision on who succeeds Raila will solely lie on him as the ODM party leader.

This comes a week after coast ODM Mp’s met in kilifi where they pushed for Joho to be Raila successor.

The legislator added that should the opposition leader settle on someone else, it would feel like a forced marriage but they would still follow the Opposition leader’s direction since he is their leader.

“Sisi twampenda Hassan Ali Joho aweze kutuongoza lakini maamuzi Baba ni yako. Ukituambia ni Hassan Ali Joho utakuwa umetufurahisha kwa sababu unatuozesha mtu ambaye tunampenda na roho yetu. Ukituambia si yeye kuna kwengine itakuwa ni ile ya kulazimishwa lakini but tutakusikiza kwa sababu wewe ndio kiongozi wetu,” Mnyazi said.

Orange Democratic Movement party leader Raila Odinga had asked leaders to stop ethnic and regional campaigns aimed at succeeding him.

According to the Opposition leader, the move will cause division within the party.

Raila asked leaders aspiring to succeed him as ODM party leader to go slow as he is still the party leader.

He likened them to men who want to inherit a woman whose husband is still alive.