why senator sonko is the only capable candidate to unseat kidero

The battle for the Nairobi gubernatorial seat has attracted a lot of interests from various political heavy weights such as senator Mike Sonko, Eugene Wamalwa who is the current CS in-charge of water and irrigation, Margaret Wanjiru former Starehe MP, former TNA chairman and nominated MP Johnson Sakaja and Dennis Waweru MP for Dagoretti all of whom are running on a Jubilee party ticket. On the Cord side, no other political bigwig has shown interest in unseating the powerful Kidero who seems to be enjoying the Cord coalition support as the ultimate flag bearer for the Nairobi top seat.

From all indications, the Nairobi gubernatorial seat has attracted interests from both sides of the major political formations. Each side is interested in defeating the other side and walk away with the ultimate price. The incumbent governor is known to have deep pockets, and enjoys the support of the Cord followers who are very much concentrated in Nairobi’s informal settlements and some of the middle class who believe that Nairobi needs a manager instead of a politician to effectively run the day to day affairs of the county. In the run up to the 2013 elections, most Nairobians favored governor Kidero owing to the fact that his arch rival Ferdinand Waititu was too crude to run Nairobi. Jubilee lost narrowly to Cord due to their miscalculations.