Kenyan president Kenyatta takes his campaign rally to the capital

Record ID: 903552

  • Title: Kenyan president Kenyatta takes his campaign rally to the capital
  • Date: 21st July 2017
  • Summary: NAIROBI, KENYA (JULY 21, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF KENYAN PRESIDENT UHURU KENYATTA DRIVING INTO CAMPAIGN RALLY JUBILEE PARTY SUPPORTERS STANDING AND CHEERING AT RALLY VARIOUS OF KENYATTA ADDRESSING CAMPAIGN RALLY CROWD AT RALLY KENYATTA ADDRESSING RALLY SUPPORTERS SMILING IN CROWD (SOUNDBITE) (Swahili) KENYAN PRESIDENT, UHURU KENYATTA, SAYING: "Do we really want a leader that will divide us on tribal lines? Do we want a leader who will tell us that you are this or that tribe? We want a leader who will bring us together." CROWD LISTENING TO SPEECH CROWD CHEERING KENYATTA AS HE SPEAKS SUPPORTERS HANDS KENYATTA ADDRESSING CAMPAIGN RALLY, CROWD STANDING AND LISTENING, CAMERAMEN FILMING RALLY
  • Embargoed: 4th August 2017 20:03
  • Keywords: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta campaign rally Nairobi Kenya reelection
  • Location: NAIROBI, KENYA
  • City: NAIROBI, KENYA
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016QNWHMV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: ****EDITORS NOTE: AUDIO AS INCOMING****
    Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta took his election campaign to the capital of Friday (July 21), urging his supporters to elect leaders who had a vision for the country and not those who would take them back to the dark ages of tribalism.
    He led a procession of luxury sports utility vehicles around the city to reach different locations where he presented his policy to supporters and urged them to give him a second chance for the August poll.
    The president's main challenger is Raila Odinga, the veteran opposition leader who is also crisscrossing the country seeking votes for his fourth run for the presidency.
    Kenyatta, the wealthy 55-year-old son of the country's first president, is running on what he presents as his record of aggressive economic development drive, citing new roads, expansion of the electricity grid and a new Chinese-built railway linking the port of Mombasa to the capital Nairobi.
    Odinga, 72, also comes from a powerful political family - his father was Kenya's first vice-president. He has pledged to lower rocketing food prices, tackle corruption, reform the public sector and strengthen local government.
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