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Nairobi Governor hopeful Peter Kenneth has been dealt a major blow after President Uhuru Kenyatta appeared to endorse Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko for Nairobi gubernatorial seat.
The president had earlier welcomed the endorsement of his reelection by independent candidates who convened at Kasarani stadium a week under the Kenya Independent Association umbrella and endorsed President Uhuru Kenyatta re-election bid.
Peter Kenneth ditched the Jubilee party after he was dissatisfied by the declaration of Mike Sonko as the winner of Jubilee ticket for Nairobi governor to face ODM’s incumbent governor Evans Kidero.
Analysts had expressed fears that President Uhuru Kenyatta was not going to publicly endorse Mike Sonko for the governor seat, due to his leadership style.
But while on a tour to Nairobi Eastlands area on Monday morning, the president asked residents to vote for Mike Sonko as the next Kenya’s capital boss.
“Nyiniyi wenyewe mliamua kwamba Sonko akuwe governor, Sakaja akuwe Senator na timu yote ya Nairobi. Wangapi wanatapigia Sonko kura awe governor?,” the President posed.
(You are the ones who decided that Sonko will be the governor, while Sakaja be your senator and the entire Nairobi team. How many of you will be voting for Mike Sonko as the Governor?).
The president was on a tour to Nairobi area, before presenting his papers to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) at the Kenya International Conference Center later in the aftrenoon.
He was accompanied by his Deputy William Ruto, Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko, Johnstone Sakaja and several other Jubilee leaders.
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No but no better candidates than Uhuruto, Rails has never done much when he was in government, RAILS is very good when out side.
I know I will be travelling to Mombasa nyweeeee with the SDR next time I'm home for just a weekend getaway and It will take me say 30 min max from Tow to Kwetu Eastlands . I also know my mzee biashara with all these constructions left and right is doing sawasawa because eveyry day at 70 he still wakes up and hustles without fail even when things gets tough, hajawahi kungojea serikali saidia mimi miaka nenda , miaka rudi..... . Me I ( Kenyanese ) , I want tano tena. and as for Sonko I have never even once seen anyone helping mama mboga with even a handout, at least sonko ( who doesnt have past ) ako na roho kiasi , so with your 20 bullet points PHD style, I shall say ndani , ndani , ndaani to the State House , Uhuruto tano tena! :-)
This is right when the voters say yes whether one is in jail or you did not like that candidate, that should be the end of it.
That is why Uhuru had no choice he have to accept Soniko and Soniko should also have no doubts of the president to work with winners. Kenneth if he was a gentleman, he could work with winners if truly be was a numblee.
@ Msema Kweli, you could have asked the same bs questions in 2007/07 after your idol god led the worst atrocities in Kenya's independent history or in 2013 after your idol god was involved in all sorts of major corruption scandals as a self-imposed backdoor PM. Why would your idol god building a 1B super mansion in Kisumu be a great thing for the homeless street dwellers but when Uhuruto build their houses you raise bs questions? National problems such as corruption, security, poverty and hunger are a collective responsibility by all of its citizenry; NOT by the President and DP alone!
@Hon Kenjuu:
My idol for your information is Mwai Kibaki. You really owe me an apology! Ni waigua?
Wanjiku decided who the leader will b during nominations n he will do the same 8/8/17 so we should stop payukaring n vomiting useless words?We tried thief thug corrupt woman beater phd kidero n he has failed in our capital city?So let's us try this Sonko who is a son of a Kenyan woman too???Kenyans should b left to chose their leaders whether they have degrees or not!Thats what democracy is??Usa/Brito pple r left to b either mashogas,maresbianism,madogism n soon they will pass sons to marry their mothers m dads to marry their daughters coz of their stinking bullshit democracy so pia sisi Wakenya tuachwe we decided who our leaders will be??Sonko has bad past but so mAny of us n wanjiku decided their leader will b sonko n as a jubilee supporter am saying sonko ndani ndani kabisa.
By Uhuru endorsing SONKO to run as the governor of Nairobi, tells us a lot about what kind of a person Unuru is!
We all know Sonko! This is a man who escaped from Shimo la Tewa jail before he finished his expected time in jail.
This is the man whose business practices are not transparent. By Uhuru endorsing him, we now know what kind of a leader he is.
When the late president of the USA Ronald Reagan had his final presidential debate with Jimmy Carter, he asked the American people this question: " Are you better now than you were four years ago?" After the election, President Jimmy Carter lost.
I will ask the Kenyan people the following questions:
1. Are you economically better now after the election of the Jubilee Alliance?
2. Are you safer on the Kenyan roads now than before?
3. Is Kenya less corrupt now than before?
4.Do you feel safe from possible Al Shabab attack than before?
5. Are the police officers less corrupt than before?
6. Are the 42 different micro-nations equally represented in national job allocations than before?
7. Can you afford the current prices of food than before?
8. Do you think it's fair for Uhuru and Ruto to build their very expensive houses when millions of poor people sleep on the streets and in slums?
9. Do you think justice has prevailed among the victims of the 2007 election?
10. Have the Kenyan students received the laptops as promised before the last election?
11. Do you think justice has prevailed among the looters of our national treasury for example Dada Waiguru and associates?
12.Are the employment prospects for the school leavers better than it was four years ago?
13.Has the income distribution fair than it was four years ago?
14. Do you think it is fair for only two micro-nations to continue ruling the rest of the Kenyans for life?
15. Is it fair for Uhuru to keep Ruto as his running mate with his crooked past?
16. Has the Jubilee Alliance eliminated the historic injustice of land distribution among the people of Kenya?
17. Is the gender gap in equal opportunities between men and women narrowing or widening after Jubilee came to power?
18. Has the Jubilee Alliance dealt with unnecessary assassinations in the country well?
19. Do you think it fair for Uhuru to endorse a person like Sonko to run for the governor of Nairobi while knowing very well his criminal past?
20. Do you think it is fair for the current corrupt Jubilee alliance to seek five more years to continue with destroying the lives of the many millions of Kenya who are worse of than they were four years ago?