No reason to love Mulyungi, no apology to Mutua
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| Mwingi North MP John Munuve. He is defending his seat on Jubilee ticket |
By MUSYOKA NGUI
Ukambani politics have been
unraveling at rather unpredictable speed if the current trends are anything to
go by.
Yet with all fairness we
can say that the region is yet to see the last act of the so called Wiper wave
standing up to the renegade rebels coming in the wake of unprecedented party
nominations that left sore losers regretting the bug that bit them and new
comers savoring their respective victories.
Without a doubt, Mwingi is
the closest watched entry point in Ukambani given the strategic importance it
offers whoever controlling the stakes of the day.
A resurgent architect Dr.
Gideon Mulyungi is threatening to render Joe Mutambu, a single term MP. It has
been said the race is too close to call but given the way things are unraveling,
the former Housing PS seems to have a head start. With the benefit of colossal
sums of money and logistical resources to perch and fly around the Mwingi Central
Constituency combing for votes, Mr. Mulyungi is on a fishing expedition given
the casting of his net further and wider.
Joe Mutambu has the benefit
of incumbency that cannot be wished away. He comes off as a man who doesn’t require
an introduction. He has access given the excitement the perceived ear he enjoys
from the Presidency having singlehandedly brought the Head of State to Mwingi previously
to launch several development projects. That was that. The man of direct line
to the house on the hill.
But Joe is also a man warding
off a traitor tag. A cursory glance down the streets of Mwingi doesn’t reveal
an aggressive campaign to recapture a constituency that has already witnessed
bouts of alleged voter bribery, intimidation and party politics boiling over
the brim of the ballot box. Joe has the onerous task of convincing his diehard
fans why they should drop the six piece suit and stop the pen and ink him in an
area where loyalty and irrational love for long time players with little to
show for the time they were in the high office is abound.
Jubilee will spend their
last machinery to have a point man in Mwingi to neuter Kalonzo in a forced
early retirement to political obscurity. Voters now have to make conjectures if
they should let their heads rule their hearts. As things stand, they don’t have
a reason to love Mulyungi. Neither do they have any apology to make to former
LSK Chairman Eric Mutua whom they felled in the primaries and embraced
Mulyungi.
But it is in Mwingi North
where the real litmus test will pan out. Another first time legislator John
Munuve-a Jubilee MP candidate is starring at polls with a sterling record but
still against a steep Wiper dominance that would make the voters regret why
they second guessed him and delayed his rise for public office for so long yet
he gave them so much. With an arsenal of young intellectuals whom he has seen through
college and high school via the NG-CDF, people are waking from their slumber as
to where the bursary cash was going in the past when safety nets were unheard
of.
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