I caused drama during a function in my county headquarters (Murang'a) last month, when I said, that I won't vote for William Ruto in 2022. Someone reminded me that we agreed as a community to back Ruto after Uhuru’s term expires in 2022 and if we start disowning the agreement this early, we might lose the Kalenjin support in 2017. I replied that I don't remember signing such an agreement and I will not be party to such crappy arrangement where a few leaders decide who the community should vote for. I have a brain and I will use it to decide.
So basically, are we voting for Ruto because we believe he can make a good president or because Kenyatta and his people have promised him our votes? Will Kalenjins vote for Uhuru in 2017 because they believe in him or because they expect reciprocation in 2022? I personally don't believe William Ruto is presidential and won't promise him my vote just because I want his people to support Uhuru’s second term, when I am not even convinced that Uhuru deserves a second term. I refuse not to use my brain.
There is a narrative that Eugene Wamalwa is the best Jubilee candidate for Nairobi because he will get more than 700,000 votes from the registered Mt Kenya voters in Nairobi and if he manages to bring just 150,000 Mulembe votes to the party, he will easily deliver the seat to the party. The key factor here is his ability to deliver the Luhya vote to the party, not his ability to bring something positively different to Nairobi.
Our leaders are busy mortgaging our votes as they align themselves and create alliances and we are falling into that trap. They are playing mathematics with our votes because they know they just need to point a certain direction and we all go there. We are slowly losing the ability to choose the right people to lead us because we have allowed ourselves to be herded like sheep. We would rather vote for the wrong leader in the right party rather for the right leader in the wrong party because we have become slaves to our party leaders. That’s the tragedy of Kenyan politics today, and this narrative is not likely to change very soon because majority of voters are not yet ready to use their brains
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