I don’t know whether they did it together, or it become either by design or a chance. Appointing Laikipia Governor Nderitu Muriithi on 5 January 2022 as his presidential Board Chairman. Azimio presidential flag bearer Raila Odinga, I opine wanted Muriithi to be his ‘John the Baptist’ a link between Eastern Block to Western Block among other objectives I enlisted earlier.
Raila was socialized into Eastern Block by his father who set him to study in East Germany. While, Muriithi’s political mentor uncle, the late Mwai Kibaki was socialized into Western Block ideology in United Kingdom. What more, Governor Muriithi’s County of Laikipia provide permanent training ground to British Army Training Unit Kenya [BATUK] a bait that made Raila to meet and hold talks with UK Minister for Defence James Heappey on 16 March 2022, when he [Raila] visited UK.
Further to that, during Azimio’s manifesto launch. Laikipia Governor Nderitu Muriithi was the one who made opening remarks. And his envisaged of steel economy, Raila took sometime to emphasize on it, when he took the podium.