ANC Issues Statement on Appointment of Mudavadi as Prime Cabinet Secretary

The Amani National Congress (ANC) party has issued a statement, revealing that it had nominated its leader Musalia for appointment as the Prime Cabinet Secretary.

Prime Cabinet Secretary is a position that Mudavadi was promised to be given under the Kenya Kwanza government.

The position is contained in a coalition agreement that was signed by three founding members of the Kenya Kwanza Coalition – the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), ANC and Ford Kenya.

And in a statement posted on their social media pages, the ANC party said a Council Bureau meeting held on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, unanimously nominated Mudavadi for the position.

Kenya Kwanza leaders during the signing of a coalition agreement.

According to the coalition agreement, the Prime Cabinet Secretary position was to be created through an executive order by the President, once he is sworn in.

Here’s the full statement of the ANC party;

“The Amani National Party has nominated its party leader @MusaliaMudavadi for the appointment as the Prime Cabinet Secretary. In a special meeting by the party’s Council Bureau held Wednesday, the council unanimously nominated H.E @MusaliaMudavadi for the position.

The new position to be created through an Executive Order was agreed upon by the founding party members of Kenya Kwanza in an agreement signed by President-elect @WilliamsRuto of UDA, @Wetangulam of Ford Kenya and @MusaliaMudavadi on behalf of the @anc_party. The meeting called by the party Secretary General was virtually held.”

70% western Kenya vote

Interestingly, the agreement was for Mudavadi and his Ford Kenya counterpart Moses Wetangula to deliver at least 70 per cent of the Luhya community votes to Dr Ruto.

Wetangula, Dr Ruto, and Mudavadi during the signing of the Kenya Kwanza coalition agreement.

However, only Bungoma county gave a majority of the votes to the President-elect.

But Dr Ruto performed fairly well in the rest of the five western Kenya counties.

Aside from the Prime Cabinet Secretary position, the Kenya Kwanza coalition agreement allocated the Speaker of the National Assembly position to the Bungoma Senator-elect.

At least 30 per cent of the government appointments were also to go to the Western Kenya region under the agreement that was formally deposited to the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties (ORPP).