The impact that independent candidates will have in the 2017 general
elections should not be underestimated. We will have approximately 4,000
candidates out there with no strings attached. Some of them in their
campiagns will provoke a backlash amongst the voters against the parties
that denied them a ticket. How will this impact presidential votes?
Apart from the presidential contest, the mother of all political battles
in the 2017 general elections will be the race for governor in
Kirinyaga. It will be Waiguru’s well-oiled-best-political-machine that
money can buy versus Karua’s decades of experience in bruising political
battles in Kirinyaga. Who ends up winner is impossible to predict. But
Karua will have to be very wary of the Mwea secret weapon Waiguru used
to win the primaries by such a huge margin...
