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willin2learn wrote:FRM2011 wrote:@  , first thumbs up for the tone in your post. True wazua spirit of critical analysis. My thoughts on central politics. Mwangi Kiunjuri has a gift of the gab. Dude is in his own league when he is speaking in Kiuk. But oratory skills can only take you so far. I don't think he is ripe to fill in the power vacuum. My take is that Muranga will be the county to watch. Irungu Kangata dropped the hint a while back when he insisted that the next community leader must come from Muranga. They hold the second largest vote bloc in Mt.Kenya after Kiambu. The other factor will be financial muscle. Kabogo and PK immediately come to mind. Third factor is the death of dominant parties (six-suit). Yesterday, Uhuru had to tell Kirinyaga voters to choose whoever they prefer between Waiguru and Martha. In 2022, I don't see many politicians wasting resources with the party primaries. Finally, WSR's political career ends with this election. Lets compare notes on 9th Aug. Mwangi Kiunjuri has no political clout to talk of and the first installment of that fact is going to happen on 8.8.2017 when his props (Joshua Irungu and his running mate lose in the elections) My crystal ball tells me the man to watch in Mt.Kenya area is Peter Munya. After wrestling the PNU party from its previous owner and shepherding it away from JP, he has attracted quite a following. Couple that with the fact that ageing Kiraitu is likely to lose to him in the elections... Post Uhuru era Munya will be the man to watch If he can beat Kiraitu, then he will just have earned himself the "king of Ameru" title. A powerful one considering the vote bloc is third after Kiambu and Nakuru. Mithika Linturi seems to be in a lot of trouble. EACC have been on his case over forged academic papers. UoN wrote back last week to EACC confirming the certificates presented by Linturi are fake.
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