Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader Raila Odinga has said he has what it takes to lead Kenya to the next level.
While enumerating the achievements that Kenya has made since independence, Raila said the country needs an engineer to take it to great prosperity.
The former premier further said he does not require President Uhuru’s endorsement ahead of the 2022 polls in which he is a frontrunner.
Raila who was speaking on a local television poured cold water on claims by critics that he was a State project.
“He doesn’t have to endorse me, and I’m not a project, I don’t want to be seen as a project,” Raila said.
During the interview, the ODM leader also steered clear of the running mate discussion, saying with more than seven months to go to the next polls, there was still time to debate, agree and a pick a running mate.
Raila further said the country now needs an engineer so that it can catch up with other countries which were at the same state of development in 1963.
“Look at these different presidencies, our first president was an anthropologist, he gave us the Kenyanisation of the Kenyan economy,” Raila added.
If he clinches the top job, Raila plans to formalise the informal sector as well as upscaling the affordable housing scheme and rolling out universal healthcare for all.
