Plans to impeach Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko will not work, Senator Johnson Sakaja has said while maintaining that Miguna Miguna is not the best choice for Deputy Governor.
Via Twitter on Sunday, Sakaja said Nairobians are longing for service delivery so it would be unfair to subject them to another political campaign.
"No plan to impeach Sonko will work," adding that all Nairobi leaders will help him on this mission.
"It is too early to pass such a fatal judgement. What we want is what all Nairobians want; service delivery. Let no one take advantage of our misgivings on his choice of DG. That is a different matter."
Sonko wants lawyer and NRMKe General Miguna Miguna to become the capital's Deputy Governor and help him fight cartels.
The Senator termed this choice a joke and said Miguna will never hold this position. Speaker Beatrice Elachi, however, said they will vet and approve the candidate as the Governor has the right to pick whoever he pleases.
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On how he will support Sonko in fulfilling promises to residents without endorsing Miguna's nomination, Sakaja told his followers that "support doesn’t mean agreeing with everything or not having an opinion".
He said he will only back the decision
if it is the only way Sonko will quash cartels.
Jubilee Party MCAs earlier denied claims that they were plotting to impeach the county chief but noted they did not want Miguna as DG.
The lawyer dismissed the nomination as a "malicious distraction" as he fights to return to the country from Canada.
Jubilee Party Vice Chairman David Murathe has also denied reports that plans to challenge the Governor are underway, contrary to reports by the Standard.
Reached for a comment by the Star on Thursday, he said: "There is no plan to impeach him at the moment. He is not at crossroads with the presidency as far as we know, unless he is saying so."
While in Mombasa on Saturday, Elachi also called
for a truce between the national and county governments and alluded to the former's lack of respect for agreement on how the two levels should work.
Blaming 'tenderprenuers' for fierce fights in the city, the Speaker asked the national government to respect the Constitution that gives Sonko powers to run Nairobi independently.
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