Murang’a Woman Rep Sabina Chege has exuded confidence Mt Kenya region shall eventually embrace ODM leader Raila Odinga and support his presidential bid.

She said Raila has for years been locked out of the region and painted as a monster to the locals, but the recent move by the Mt Kenya Foundation to endorse him shall change the perception about him.

“He did a good thing by going through the elders who gave him the leeway to come to the people in the region,” she said.

She said there has been too much negativity peddled about to the people and this has made them reject him for decades.

“We have had mudslinging and name-calling politics painting him in a very bad light to the people, making them to reject him” she said. “We have been told many things about him to an extent you would think he is not human.”

She said Odinga’s declaration to vie for the presidency marks the beginning of dialogue between him to the residents and the latter shall decide if they will take him or not.

“At least we now have a conversation whether we can support Odinga or not, and this is not something we could not have done two or three years ago.”

Chege said she shall be on the lead to drum up support for Odinga and help people shed off the fear they have for him.

“It’s my responsibility as a leader to tell the people of the region the truth because they have been fed with too many lies,” she said.