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"speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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"content": "Let me also take this opportunity to congratulate the winner of this election, Hon. Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, a good African from our neighbouring country, Djibouti. As we celebrate Youssouf’s victory, I cannot fail to note with immense gratitude to former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Despite leading in the first, second, and almost the third vote, when he reached the sixth vote, he opted, in the spirit of Pan-Africanism, not to subject the assembly to another round of campaigning and election. He had a choice to fight on. Because there were many countries that were supporting Raila Odinga, our brother Mahamoud Youssouf, probably, would not have got the two thirds. But the former Prime Minister opted to allow the assembly to go ahead and vote and see if the person who was leading then in that round could achieve the two thirds that was required for the chairperson’s seat. That is how Ali Youssouf Mahamoud was elected as the Chairperson of Africa Union Commission (AUC)."
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