I’m calling it. Karua will ensure 100% support in Mt. Kenya, 100% support from women and she won’t hurt his male vote because Karua has a reputation of being a ‘total man’. It will be historic.
Western powers may sympathize more with the guy as it will be seen as progressive in a region where women seem disenfranchised etc. So it may be more convenient for the West to back him or not to push too hard against him.
Admittedly,I don’t know who Katya is. I left at even Luo… should have left at 100%… or maybe I just shouldn’t have opened the thread:)
Was still in process of editing hahaha
I’m neutral in Kenyan politics, I don’t support anyone, this is just an observation.
She can barely get enough votes in her own village
Karua and Ruto are complete opposites if not made of the same cloth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aghAbjQZOJw:4
They cannot share the same political platform.
She’s not the typical politician that’s true, but she is a candidate professionals and patriots can throw their weight behind.
Martha Karua cannot work with anyone. She is not a politician. She always thinks she is in court arguing a case. Ruto should not consider her. If Ruto is looking for a woman running mate from Mt.K, the deputy governor of Nyeri is a good kept secret.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZNrr_3LmPQ
A year ago… Perspectives do shift.
Who will work with moody and bitter bitch? She’s infamous for being hard to deal with.
That’s what happens when you deal with incorruptible people, they refuse to be compromised and get annoyed at the blatant attempts
Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa has said locking out Mr William Ruto and Ms Martha Karua from the post-elections violence mediation team in 2008 helped secure a power-sharing agreement between President Mwai Kibaki and Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga.
Violence erupted after the December 27, 2007 elections where the incumbent, Mr Kibaki of the Party of National Unity (PNU), was declared the winner of the presidential vote, results disputed by Mr Odinga and many other observers.
In his book My Life, My Purpose. A Tanzanian President Remembers, Mr Mkapa also reveals how Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni nearly rocked the mediation boat as wealthy Kenyans piled pressure on the negotiators and belligerents for an agreement. The talks would eventually lead to the signing of the National Accord and subsequent formation of a government of national unity – also known as the Grand Coalition Government.
Mr Mkapa recalls that Mr Ruto of ODM, who is now Kenya’s Deputy President in the Jubilee administration, and Ms Karua of PNU, now Narc Kenya leader, “were the most difficult people to deal with”.
He says the two politicians often exacerbated tensions during the talks.
“The atmosphere changed when we got Kibaki and Odinga together without Karua and Ruto present,” Mr Mkapa says in his memoir My Life, My Purpose. A Tanzanian President Remembers.
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The book was launched in Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam on Tuesday. It recounts the intrigues that characterized the 39-day mediation that was chaired by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who died in August last year. In his book, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, Annan also dedicates a chapter to Kenya’s post-election violence.
The book says Mr Kibaki’s negotiating team was more obstinate than Mr Odinga’s during the talks.
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Contacted, Mr Ruto told the Sunday Nation: “Kenya has moved forward.”
Ms Karua, a former Justice minister, said: “Let him (Mr Mkapa) have fun.”
Apart from the two, others in the negotiating team were Mr Musalia Mudavadi, Dr Sally Kosgei and Mr James Orengo for ODM. The PNU side was represented by Prof Sam Ongeri, Mr Mutula Kilonzo and Mr Moses Wetang’ula.
Mr Mkapa described the Kenyan experience as his toughest mediation assignment outside his country, where he navigated talks in 2000 to block attempts by Zanzibari president Salmin Amour to extend his stay in office for a third five-year term.
huyo mama ni kisirani and as ilisemakana in an empty room she can start a war with herself. but she is the most near moral, straight, with integrity politician i have ever seen. kama si feminism kumshika makende i would have voted for her as president.