Who is the real Kingpin of Ukambani Politics?
For a long time now, former Vice President and Wiper Democratic Movement Party Leader has been known as the King of Ukambani Politics. This was so until Machakos Governor Dr. Alfred Mutua came to the fold with the Governor even forming his own political party to challenge Kalonzo’s wiper Party for various slots in the 2017 general elections.
Well, if you thought that Kalonzo only has to worry about Mutua, wait until you hear of Makueni Governor Dr. Kivutha Kibwana.
Kibwana has told off Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka and asked his party leader to accept to be challenged in Ukambani politics.
The second-time governor said nothing stops him from contesting the presidency in 2022 despite Kalonzo-allied MPs threatening to crush him politically.
Mwingi Central MP Gideon Mulyungi led several legislators at the Kitui Goat Auction on Sunday in warning the Ukambani governors, Kibwana, Machakos’ Alfred Mutua and Kitui’s Charity Ngilu from ‘frustrating Kalonzo’s bid’.
The legislators said the community was banking on Kalonzo, who was present at the auction, to ensure Ukambani was part of the government after 2022 election.
But in a statement yesterday, Kibwana dismissed the narrative asking the propagators to read the Constitution which has declared Kenya a functioning democracy. He said the Kamba community “cannot be forced to support a leader”
“Only in a monarchical system that there is no possibility for a designated leader to be opposed.”
A fierce online campaign, following the county chief’s development record, was launched by netizens asking the governor not to retire from politics.
And during a meeting with accountants at an Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya in Mombasa last Monday, Kibwana said that he wouldn’t mind going for the top seat ‘as long as he has support’.
Do you think that Kivutha Kibwana has what it takes to succeed Kalonzo as the Voice of the Kamba Nation?
Would you vote him in should he contest for Presidency come 2022?