Raila Overtakes Ruto in the Latest Opinion Poll After Picking Karua as Running Mate
Azimio La Umoja coalition presidential flagbearer Raila Odinga has overtaken his main challenger Deputy President William Ruto in the latest opinion poll by Trends and Insights Africa (TIFA).
The study placed Odinga’s popularity at 39 percent after picking Nark-Kenya party leader Martha Karua as his running mate in the August 9th presidential election.
Ruto, who settled on Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua as his running mate, trails Odinga at 35 percent while Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka comes a distant third at two percent.
TIFA lead researcher Tom Wolf indicated that Odinga’s popularity grew by 7 percent since the last survey while Ruto’s approval ratings dropped by 4 percent to 35 from 39 three weeks ago.
The survey was conducted on May 17th, a day after Odinga unveiled Karua as his running mate, and two days after Ruto picked Gachagua. A total of 1,719 respondents from across the country were interviewed via phone in a poll TIFA says it funded on its own.
The participants were picked from regions subdivided as Central Rift, Coast, Lower Eastern, Mt Kenya, Nairobi, Northern, Nyanza, South Rift, and Western, and divided based on the population.
The poll indicates that the Azimio La Umoja coalition is popular in five zones while Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza Alliance enjoys popularity in four zones.
“Note numbers of voters in zones is very different, so this doesn’t reflect on who the winner is,” Wolf said during a media briefing on Wednesday.
Azimio is the most popular alliance at 38 percent, followed by Kenya Kwanza at 28 percent, OKA at 3 percent, while the undecided stands at 31 percent. The survey also shows that Odinga still popular among older Kenyans.
Comments (12)
Rarua ticket is a corruption free ticket against the two biggest thieves in kenya under UDAku the home of thieves.
Kenyans want to end corruption so that kenya can develop and grow.
Rarua Tosha!
The man from sugoi has been campaigning for the last four years only to score 35%. Kenyan knows him better now as a liar. In Kenya all need to done is to curb corruption and everything else will fix itself. Having department of justice under Martha Karua is a plus for Kenya.
Raila - Karua is a movement. 'Fired up, ready to go!' quoting from Obama campaign.
Just like darkness can not compete with light, two known thieves and cons with cases in court can not compete with two known liberators of the second struggle. Kenyans know better and this will come to pass come August 9th.
How does two known thieves and whiners expected Kenyans to vote for them. Ruto is a conman who picked an arrogant thief to deputize him so they can easily finish kenya. It’s not gonna happen.
Looking at the picture, you’d think the lady behind Martha is Ruto’s wife. It looks like her.
@kk, you are right that is Rachel. She has always supported RAO because she believes he is right leader to take kenya to the next level. Also Rachel says she is tired of a thieving husband.
Hahahaha.
C’mon don’t you know Sabina from Muranga?
No that is Rachel Ruto! It’s not Sabina. Rachel is supporting Baba, and she is really happy to see Martha Karua as Raila’s DP. She came to baba meeting to congratulate Karua.
Hehehehe Karua stood for president in 2013 she got 43000 votes n majority of the voters who voted for her were men so let me ask where were this women then??Mwizi charity Ngilu did the same where weee this women then???Karua made a grace mistake by support thief muuaji economic sabotage raila coz she is clean.Trust me Agikuyu or Gema won’t vote for him n u can take that to the bank.
Karua walked out on mellow Moi and kind Kibaki. Can she stand rough aggressive Raila? Her Reform credentials have been overtaken by time and new constitution.