Barely a month after announcing his candidature for the Presidency, aspirant Pete Ondeng has bowed out of the race.
Instead, he will support the latest entrant, Joe Nyaga.
He cited that he is stepping out of the race because it is crowded. “We cannot have 18 candidates,” he told reporters.
“A crowded race of 18 candidates seeking election as president will not be fair,” added Ondeng.
He said he will serve as Nyaga’s strategy policy advisor.
Ondeng was vying on a Restore and Build Kenya (RBK) ticket.
He said his bid for the top political seat was not for personal interests but to see Kenya fully transformed and changed.
“I did not join the race for personal interests… I entered the race because I wanted to see change,” insisted Ondeng.
Ondeng who is also the founder and Chairman of Nairobi-based NGO Lead Africa Foundation said Nyagah will offer alternative leadership that is lacking in NASA and Jubilee.
“Nyaga represents a thinking that is free of tribe… He stood his ground when the country was burning in 2007.”
Citing that Kenya’s political system is out of tracks, he said Nyaga and his team still has a chance to fix the country’s politics.
“It can be fixed if concerned Kenyans from across the political divide can come together to restore integrity and public confidence in the country’s leadership and institutions of governance,” he said.