Charity Ngilu
Charity Kaluki Ngilu (born January 28, 1952 ) is a Kenyan businesswoman and politician who was the first woman to run for the office of President.
Life
Charity Kaluki Ngilu ran for parliament for the first time in 1992 and surprisingly managed to win over the Kitui constituency in Kambaland for the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP).
In 1997 she attracted international attention as a presidential candidate for the SDP and came in 5th place among the applicants.
In 2002 she joined forces with other smaller parties and the Democratic Party of Mwai Kibaki to form the National Alliance of Kenya (NAK), which in turn formed an alliance with the Liberal Democratic Party under Raila Odinga, which had split off from the ruling KANU party , and became the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) with the presidential candidate Kibaki won the elections. Ngilu became party leader of the NARC.
In the government, she was appointed Minister of Health.
In 2005, most members of the NARC left after a constitutional referendum that split the government. In 2006 Ngilu declared her support for the opposition applicant Raila Odinga and was subsequently dismissed from the government.
She joined the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Odingas and is part of the party leadership. In the 2007 election she managed to regain her parliamentary seat in Kitui.
The fact that she was still formally chairing the NARC and adhering to it forced Kibaki to create a new political platform for the 2007 election in the form of the Party of National Unity (PUK), which no longer had enough time to build one Organization and did extremely badly in the parliamentary elections.
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| SURNAME | Ngilu, charity |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ngilu, Charity Kaluki |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kenyan businesswoman and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1952 |