By the pen of Gitau wa Kung'u (profgitauwakungu@gmail.com)
Do you think your life just saw a blue goat stomping and bleating “Wooi Nyasi’s price shot up?” Just think about what must be boiling in Dr Irungu Kang’ata’s and Dr. William Ruto thoughts from the sunrise of their dark Monday, June 6th.
The UDA’s Murang’a gubernatorial candidate’s denial of IEBC’s clearance certificate for the August general elections became the shocker of the not-babysitting week. Allegedly, Dr Kang’ata’s running mate Dr Winnie Mwangi, did not resign from her job as a lecturer at University of Nairobi!
The team has proceeded to the courts to demystify the “injustice” which some think was an act of some ghostly “Deep State” poker to either teach Dr Kang’ata a lesson for disenfranchising himself from the president’s side by denying him the county 021 governorship, or challenge the deputy president’s power over Mt. Kenya region. If Kang’ata is not in the ballot, Ruto’s campaigns in the voter populous county shall be limping.
Many UDA supporters shall surely lose confidence in Kang’ata and contemptuously agree that he is surely a “kagege” (gullible/stupid person). He shall be the wounded, limping horse that won’t win Dr Ruto, Wangeci’s expected votes because Jubilee-Azimio’s Hon Jamleck Kamau support will gain momentum.
Nevertheless, the petition seems like the last kick of a dying horse. Dr Kang’ata is among the best lawyers in Kenya. How did he sign the partnership deal with Dr Winnie without confirming her resignation from her lecturing job yet it is a constitutional requirement that any political aspirant must have legally resigned from their jobs at least 5 months from the general elections?
Well, Dr Kang’ata blames the mishap on the haunting ghosts of his competitors. But his competitors didn’t sign Dr Winnie as his running mate, did they? The popularly known as “mtu wa barua” has been positioned either 2nd after Jubilee’s (Azimio) Hon Jamleck Kamau, when not 1st in the last several popular polls survey teams. He has been thrust forward by being offered the county’s most popular party UDA’s gubernatorial ticket! So what is the game here?
This situation stimulates several deep prospective circumstances like:
If Dr Kang’ata’s petition meets the Judiciary’s Grim Reaper, Will he support either former PS’ Hon Irungu Nyakera (Framers Party) or Hon Wairagu wa Maai (Democratic Party) who are his competitors in Kenya Kwanza (KK) coalition? Nyakera has been deemed the 3rd most popular County 021 gubernatorial candidate, followed by Wairagu.
In such prospection, shall he be offered to serve in a KK government as a cabinet secretary, with regard of his being among the most influential UDA campaigners?
It is worth noting that the odds of the KK coalition trio running for the Murang’a gubernatorial bid and winning against a single and politically strong Jubilee candidate Jamleck will culminate into their loss to the triumph of Azimio! More so, Kang’ata cannot support Nyakera and leave Wairagu.
It is a far fetching eventuality thus that KK will end up with only one C021 governor aspirant (most probably Nyakera); while Wairagu will be forced to drop his bid in the promise of being offered an office in a KK coalition government and; both Kang’ata and Wairagu to campaign for the Farmers Party candidate.
Whether or not Dr Kang’ata’s petition is favoured, Dr. Ruto has to intervene into the Murang’a gubernatorial politics in order to ensure the county regarded among his Mt Kenya region stronghold does not lose the governorship to Azimio. He has to diminish the sibling rivalry existing between the KK coalition gubernatorial bidders and bring them into a palpable consensus before all of them lose to Jamleck.
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