Bobasi MP Innocent Obiri defects to Wiper party

Bobasi Member of Parliament Innocent Obiri has ditched Ford-Kenya for the Kalonzo Musyoka-led Wiper Democratic Movement party ahead of the August General Elections.

The legislator made the move during a One Kenya Alliance (OKA) tour of the Kisii County on Thursday.

He was received together with ten other Members of County Assembly (MCAs) by the Wiper leader.

Obiri said that he was confident of the Wiper party muscle in the country and was also certain of its future.

“Mimi nikiona mkiwa hapa hivi wengi na mimi nikijiunga na nyinyi najua kitaweza kuwa chama kubwa,” Obiri said.

Kalonzo, on his part, lauded the move by the MP saying it was key in establishing a base for Wiper in the region.

He noted that in 2007, his party did not have any candidate from the region despite him running for the presidency.

“In 2007 I traversed the 10 constituencies here in Kisii while campaigning but I did not get any candidate from the region,” Kalonzo said.

Obiri was formerly a deputy party leader of Ford-Kenya, which is led by Bungoma Senator and Kenya Kwanza alliance co-principal Moses Wetangula.

He was in 2017 elected on a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by former South Mugirango MP Omingo Magara before he moved to Ford-Kenya.