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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: vooke on October 17, 2021, 01:38:27 PM
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Now to politics. The indications are that you are joining, or have joined, Ruto’s UDA. Where are you in terms of political inclinations?
As I said some time back, I am listening (to the ground). All politics is local. You can be very involved in national politics and become very irrelevant, because you actually get yourself off your seat. The first rule in politics, in my view, is that you first secure your seat because that is what gives you an audience. Then you ask yourself, how do you do that?
Our political parties are not really based on different ideologies. What will determine which side you will go in 2022 is the people. The Wanjikus this time round want to be the ones who decide the direction that politicians go. Where I come from, the Wanjikus are tending to be on the UDA side. Now, I can make a choice and go against the grain and I could probably win, but I would have to spend a lot more because it is going against the grain.
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So you are abandoning the President and going the Ruto way.
No, I have not abandoned the President. The President is not abandonable. But he is not running, he is now exiting. He has made it very clear to all of us about that. In fact I was one of those who at some point thought the BBI would allow him to come back as Prime Minister, and he told me to my face: “I am not coming back. I am finishing my term and I do not want to hear that conversation from you.” The second is that he is a politician par excellence. Look at his track record, he understands what I am doing completely, because what use am I to Uhuru if I am out?
Have you had any conversation with the President regarding what the ground is saying?
No comment on that. But if you remember, there was a time Uhuru was with Raila in the Orange-Banana divide. They had both been fired from the Cabinet in 2005 by the then President. But in the 2007 elections he jumped ship and left Raila. His own words to me, because I was the one carrying the files in 2012, were that he had told Raila: “Back home, I will lose my seat in Gatundu South if I continue staying with you. Wacha nitafute kiti yangu kwanza tukutane Bunge.” So he understands, and he expects that of me. That, as a politician, I will first secure my seat.
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/waiguru-why-ruto-is-the-new-king-of-mt-kenya-3585768
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As long as Ruto has even 60 percent chance - no politician will in Mt kenya unless he has been paid like Kioni in 2013 - will want to start with -60 percent - so Raila aint going to make much headway.
Waiguru should aim to battle Ngiricis - without starting from negative 60 percent.