One year after the resignation of his deputy governor, Nairobi governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko is set to appoint a replacement on Friday.
While addressing the media at a Mombasa hotel, Sonko said he has already settled on the person who will replace Polycarp Igathe.
Sonko said the delays in the appointment were caused by ‘consultation between various stakeholders’ including his party.
“After a year, I have finally settled on one person whom I will name of Friday,” he said
An in-law to Kibaki, Jane Weru hails from a wealthy family that shot to the spotlight during the grand coalition era when her mother denied then PM Raila Odinga access to their hotel in Nyeri county.
Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko will on Friday name Akiba Mashinani Trust Executive Director Jane Weru as his nominee for the deputy governor’s seat.
This will end speculation and the fill the vacancy left a year ago when Polycarp Igathe, frustrated by Sonko’s leadership style, quit in a huff.
The governor, who has been under pressure to name a deputy to help in the running of City Hall, had initially picked for people, all of them women, from a list of 10 applicants for consideration after the County Assembly rejected his nomination of fiery lawyer Miguna Miguna.
One year after the resignation of his deputy governor, Nairobi governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko is set to appoint a replacement on Friday.
The others were former Starehe MP Margaret Wanjiru, insurance executive Agnes Kagure and lawyer Karen Nyamu, who unsuccessfully sought to vie for the Nairobi Women Representative’s seat but lost to Rachel Shebesh in the Jubilee nominations.