Has the ODM party brokered a deal with Jubilee on the sharing of elective positions in Nairobi county in 2022? It is understood Raila Odinga’s (pictured) ODM could have settled on a Nairobi power-sharing formula in which the party would support a Jubilee candidate for the governor. Insiders have confided to Corridors of Power that a Kikuyu who will run on a Jubilee ticket will be the joint candidate for the handshake with ODM’s backing. The ODM party will go for the deputy governor who will be a Luyha to appease the Western Kenya bloc.
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Is a senior Nairobi politician gambling with his 2022 ambitions? There are concerns the politician's move to associate himself with a bigwig from his own tribe could complicate his chances next year. With the company he is keeping, analysts have warned, he risks even being pushed to political oblivion if he opts for the county's top seat. Is it a political miscalculation or an attempt to kill two birds with the proverbial one stone? Water is yet to settle on this proposition but what is crystal clear is that the politician is walking a political tightrope to balance the high stakes interests in the battle for the Nairobi governor's seat. Time will tell if he has any chances.
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Still with matters politics, a political heavyweight from Kiambu county could be considering shifting his base to the capital city in the 2022 battle. There are reports that the politician has heightened church activities in Nairobi with a view of shifting his base to the capital city. The man with deep pockets has been meeting select groups from the city at his Ruai home, as the 2022 politics take shape. As he plots to cross-over, the politician has argued that he stands better chances of winning a seat in the capital city as opposed to his Kiambu home county. However, he will have to crack the hard nut of his choice of the right political party.
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The impending Nguu/Masumba ward by-election in Makueni county is fast transforming into Governor Kivutha Kibwana and Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka’s new battlefield. A local tells Corridors of Power that MCAs started to take sides soon after the seat was declared vacant. Ward reps allied to the governor have pledged to ensure a candidate fronted by the Wiper leader is humiliated at the polls. The bad blood was made worse by the recent move by Wiper to summon the county boss to a disciplinary hearing over his conduct and the correspondence between him and the party. Local elders recently endorsed Kibwana for the presidency in next year’s general election.
