Obama’s brother running for seat in Kenyan government saying that he has been ‘inspired and challenged’ by the U.S. President
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | January 18, 2013 8:25
Barack Obama’s Kenyan half-brother has launched his own political career, claiming he has been ‘inspired and challenged’ by theUSPresident.
Malik Obama, 54, who shares a father with his powerful brother, plans to run for governor of a Kenyan county.
Speaking from his ancestral home of Kogelo in westernKenya, he said that he was the best candidate to deal with the ‘endless cycle of poverty and unemployment that bedevils my people’.
His main rival in the election is another well connected candidate, the younger brother of Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
In a country polarised by dominant political parties such as theOrangeDemocratic party led by Odinga and The National Alliance party of presidential frontrunner Uhuru Kenyatta, Obama is running as an independent.
Kenyans have claimed theUSPresident as one of their own even though Barack did not know his father or relatives very well and was raised by his mother and grandmother inHawaii.
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