The Embu governor has gone through alot ever since he became the governor of embu with countless court heraings but have all emerged winner in all of them.
Well seems like the saying “Behind every successful man is a woman,” to be quite evidence in Wamboras life right now.
The Meru governor is married to Teresia Wambora for close to 40 years.
Teresia is a graduate of Medicine from the University of Nairobi.
According to Wambora, Before Teresia got married to him he had to make one thing clear to her that she would have to leave her career and join him in managing their business and since shje believed in him she did exactly that.
Teresia has since then stood with her husband even during tough times. Wambora lost nearly all friends when he was impeached as Embu governor in 2014. But not Teresia. She stood with her husband. She says the man is not a master of confrontational politics.
In addition she says, “He does not talk much. He is interested in action and sometimes forgets to seek votes for himself.”
Teresia kept a low profile during the first 10 years of her husband’s life in elective politics that began in 2002. She was managing family business from their private office at the Embassy House along Harambee Avenue, Nairobi.
She the relocated to Embu in 2013, when her husband became the firsty governor of Embu.
After his first impeachment, Teresia has always appeared by her husband’s side in most public events. She has also been more vocal, sometimes to the chagrin of politicians who feel she was usurping the governor’s powers.
Following her background in medicine she has played a great role in maternal and child health projects in Embu.
She was instrumental for Embu to become the second county to get the Beyond Zero mobile clinic from First Lady Margaret Kenyatta.
Teresia has also mobilised women to register for NHIF’s Linda Mama cover to access free maternity services in public hospitals.
The couple’s four chaildren include Citizen TV sports anchor Mukami Wambora. “She is a lawyer who left her job at Cooperative Bank’s legal department to go and do sports. She said that’s her passion,” her father said.
Irene, Wambora’s eldest daughter, is a tourism management specialist who runs the family’s Countryview Downtown Hotel on the Embu-Meru road. The governor’s son Chris is an IT specialist in Nairobi. The brother Charles lives in Sydney having graduated from Curtin University in Australia.