Popularity in campus is not ticket to public office

As the citizens of Kenya gear up in anticipation for the long awaited presidential elections in Kenya next year, the crowd is on fever pitch with most of the academic institutions also having their own internal polls.

In the recent past, most of the top leaders in these prestigious institutions have joined the corridors of power through their involvement in presidential campaigns while still in campus. With the likes of James Orengo and Paul Muite to state just a few have been either a student leader or a vocal member of the student body in their time in campus. Most political parties, now coalitions might have attracted their votes in campuses using student leaders to share their manifestos or set their various agendas in campus.