Siaya County Governor Hon. Cornel Rasanga has become the very first incumbent Governor to declare intentions of vying for a Parliamentary seat ahead of the 2022 general elections after his tenure as the County Governor comes to an end next year.
Rasanga has maintained that he wants to remain in active politics as he has no intentions of retiring from the same as he has so much to give to his people.
He wants to continue serving the good people of Siaya County in whichever way they want him to because he believes his time of leaving politics isn’t here yet.
Hon. Rasanga noted that his term was disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic which slowed down the development projects he had in place for the County thus his reason/s for wanting to move down to a parliamentary office which will help him accomplish the projects that he had started earlier as the County governor.
Speaking during an Orange Democratic Movement(ODM) delegates meeting on Friday, September 3 in Siaya County, Governor Rasanga made it clear that he will be vying for the Alego Usonga seat in the 2022 general elections.
“I want to ask my people to consider voting me as their MP in 2022. I am not ready yet to go for retirement, for I have sharp brains and I’m still young,” Rasanga said.
Rasanga went on to speak on his critics using his age to undermine his political ambitions stating that he intends to be elected based on his track record as a leader as opposed to his age.
“I am not going to stop my bid for the MP seat. I will traverse Alego Usonga Sub-County to sell my ideologies and policies to the people. It is time to bring in new leadership,” the Siaya County incumbent governor stated.
On the other hand, Hon. Samuel Atandi, the current Alego Usonga Member of Parliament has warned governor Rasanga to retire peacefully before he reduces him to a laughing stock once he beats him in the upcoming general elections in August 2022.
“I want to ask Rasanga to retire peacefully. The parliamentary seat that he is eying does not match him. If I defeat him, he shall be a laughing stock and would lose respect he has earned in the past,” Samuel Atandi noted.
Rasanga’s leadership has been called to question with corruption allegations being an always-on conversation during his tenure as a governor since he was elected governor in 2013 and re-elected in the same seat on an ODM ticket in 2017.
West Asembo MCA, Ambrose Akuno who confessed to receiving Kshs. 150, 000 bribe caused a group of angry residents to storm the Siaya County headquarters protesting alleged cases of financial impropriety at the county government.
