Charity Ngilu

Charity Kaluki Ngilu ( born January 28, 1952) is a Kenyan businesswoman and politician who became the first woman candidate for the office of President.

Life

Charity Kaluki Ngilu stood as a candidate in 1992 for the Parliament and for observer could surprisingly win the constituency Kitui in Kambaland for the opposition Social Democratic Party ( SDP).

In 1997, she caught then as a presidential candidate for the SDP international sensation, reaching in the election on the 5th place among the applicants.

2002, it merged with other smaller parties and the Democratic Party of Mwai Kibaki to the National Alliance of Kenya ( NAK), which in turn before the election came in an alliance with the split of the ruling party KANU Liberal Democratic Party under Raila Odinga and the National Rainbow Coalition ( NARC ) with the presidential candidate Kibaki won the election. Ngilu was leader of the NARC.

In government it the Office of the Minister of Health was transferred.

2005 left most members of the NARC for a constitutional referendum, which divided the government. 2006 declared Ngilu their support for the opposition candidate Raila Odinga and was subsequently dismissed from the government.

She joined the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM ) and Odinga belongs to the party leadership. In the 2007 election, she managed to regain her seat in Kitui.

The fact that they continue to formally Chairman of NARC was and still believed Kibaki forced them to provide for the election in 2007 in the short term a new political platform in the form of the Party of National Unity (PUK ) which to build a insufficient time had the organization and in the parliamentary elections very bad section.