Baratang wrote:bubethi wrote:kaka2za wrote:People of Mt Kenya are are not so eager about exercising power.It is mainly about protecting their economic interests which they perceive to be under threat.
They will come out to vote regardless of who is opposing RAO. Voter turn out will most likely drop to below 50% when RAO quits politics.
Agree to this 100% as was the case during Moi-era elections.

Do not lie to yourselves. During the Moi era 1978 to 1988 the Mt Kenya region rarely averaged more than 30% on turn out because open rigging was the order of the day. Come 1992 and the turn out rose slightly above 35% during the first multiparty elections and the Matiba wave. It remained constant or somewhere there about up until 2002 where there were two opposing camps from the same region. In 2002 the average turn out was about 50% and this reigned in 2007 elections which became a game changer in Mt Kenya region.
In 2013, equiped with the memories of 2008, the average turn out short to 85%. In 2017 elections the average turn out was around 85%. The supreme court has just introduced another reason for mountaineers to beat their own turn out record. You can rest assured that the turn out will clock 95%. It may seem far fetched but, it will be the case.
Even if baba quits politics the turn out will still be high mainly because of the devolved political competitions.
I have to agree with Baratang on this.
The central vote especially in Kiambu now knows that even the MCA matters. I had a conversation recently with some business people in Kikuyu about Kabogo losing.
Unlike the sensational stories by mbroggers, their problem was not the matiti comments. They knew it was a lie.
Their problem was that Kabogo people in yellow would walk around with their tu machines and start charging them 50 bob, 140 for this or that etc. the business people weren't happy about being taxed.
For as long as a gov't shall harass these business people, they too shall go.
In that case, don't expect the central vote especially in Kiambu to ever go down. They will come out even more if they think that their livelyhoods are in trouble.
They are very sophisticated voters. They even know Kameme is crap.
Thieves are not good people. Tumeelewana?