Pick Mombasa Governor Hassan Ali Joho as Cord presidential candidate The Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord) should stop worrying over who should be the coalition’s flag bearer in the crucial 2017 general election and pick Mombasa Governor Hassan Ali Joho. Cord should not spend months and years dreaming about picking a presidential candidate and explore unlikely possible scenarios that could determine the 2016 election by picking unlikeliest candidates. The three political heavyweights should bite the bullet and appoint another young flag bearer who has the political acumen to defeat President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2017. The youthful and assertive Mombasa governor can make a good and transformative president if elected and have the energy and the will to transform the country into a middle income economy as envisioned in the Vision 2030. The no-nonsense governor is politically battle hardened whose rise to the helm of coastal politics cannot be ignored.

Source: Standard Digital August 26, 2016 04:30 UTC