Joho starts exercising his new ODM powers

– Hassan Joho has started exercising his new powers in ODM by writing to Kidero – Joho told Raila to sit back and allow him ‘fight’ for ...

– Hassan Joho has started exercising his new powers in ODM by writing to Kidero

– Joho told Raila to sit back and allow him ‘fight’ for him

Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho seems to have acquired fresh powers within the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) corridors if the letter he authored to his Nairobi counterpart Evans Kidero is anything to go by.

In the Saturday, September 10 ODM celebrations in Mombasa, Joho told the party leader Raila Odinga to step back, relax and watch him and Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya fight for him.

Joho said he will take the Jubilee Party head-on as the country moves to the 2017 general election.

The governor now seems to have already started making good his threats with a letter to Kidero proving that.


Joho has written to Kidero notifying him of a planned ODM meeting in Nairobi county which will be followed by a series of rallies led by the Mombasa governor himself.

In the letter where he addresses Kidero as ‘ndugu’, Joho says that he will lead a delegates’ forum and a series of roadshows culminating in a public rally in Mathare constituency on Sunday, September 18.

“This is following our joint commitment as ODM leaders during the delegates’ convention in Mombasa to revitalise, re-energise and popularise our party leader’s bid for the presidency in 2017,” Joho told Kidero.
The governor has declared he will face off with Deputy President William Ruto in 2022 for the presidency and has already started tackling him as early as 2016.

Joho has promised Raila that he will be answering Ruto on his behalf and  that he shouldn’t be worried as his political opponents will be taken care of.

Image: Hassan Joho/Facebook