Maina Kageni explains why he decided to vie for Nairobi Women Representative seat (Video)
Classic FM presenter Maina Kageni is facing off with ODM’s Esther Passaris and Jubilee’s Rachel Shebesh in the race for Nairobi Women Representative seat.
Contrary to popular imagination that Women Rep seat is a preserve for women only, Maina announced his candidature and provided evidence to show that he had been cleared by registrar of political parties and IEBC to vie for Nairobi Women Rep as an independent candidate.
Maina’s chose a wig as his symbol, he asked Nairobi voters to look for the wig symbol when they go to vote come August 8th.
The Classic FM presenter explained that he chose to vie for Nairobi Women Rep seat because his audience on radio pushed him to vie for that particular seat.
“My fellow Kenyans I wanna thank you so so much for the faith you had in me, for more than 10 years I have sat on air and addressed issues that regard women in Kenya. And it started as a joke and people kept saying “you need to run for women representative” and initially I didn’t take them seriously but I realized the demand was real. So after much thought, after much consideration and consultation with Nairobi’s women, with the electorates and with supporters of Classic 105, I decided that this is the time to make a move. If we stay where we are we will never make a difference. And so I initially began the process of being able to be sure that am gonna be on the ballot. And the first place I went to was the registrar of political parties who dully issued this certificate to me as an independent candidate,” Maina Kageni said in part.
Watch the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssbDQ8oPUQo&feature=youtu.be
