Why Kalenjins might have to re-think their 2022 presidential hopes.

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There is a serious political secrete brewing in the Jubilee party with the arrival of former presidential aspirant-Peter Kenneth. It's causing "exothermic" political panic among rift valley leaders led by Uasin Gishu governor-Jackson Mandago.
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Albeit Kiambu governor and other leaders from central Kenya expressed their open dissatisfaction over what they understood as an ostensible “return of favor” to the incumbent Deputy President as the JP presidential flag bearer come 2022. It must still clearly be understood that, things have not changed and whether hopefuls like it or not, it must eventually turn to be a raw deal, and I am sure it may not resonate well with optimists in the end. Peter Kenneth is the main man behind this argument as I am going to make sense of it in this article.

He was in the presidential race for 2013 general elections on the Kenya National Congress party. He equally performed fairly well in the presidential debates that shaped the opinions of 72, 796 Kenyans in his favor at the ballot. Unfortunately, he was not lucky to clinch the seat just like the rest of his six counterparts who were also potential victors, but at the end of the day, he managed to garner a paltry size of that much votes. Meaning, after Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the president, he automatically deserved serve in the minority government popularly known as the opposition government, just by virtue of his position in the last election.

Commanding headlines now is his decision to ditch his foster party KNC for JP cavalcade in the name of reducing his presidential dreams to a mere county C.E.O, at least for the 2017 polls with Nairobi being his possible destination. He also confirms out rightly that he will support the incumbent for his second and last presidential bid come 2017.

What this portends politically is nothing far from what governor Kabogo and the rest forewarned. Nobody saw this coming I am sure. Neither can we deny that both Kenneth and the president could have been enjoying a clandestine political courtship in William Ruto’s oblivion. Who knows that by joining the Jubilee bandwagon, Peter Kenneth is being groomed by Mount Kenya leaders for 2022 presidential race?

Although I am a millennial by generation and age, I have been around long enough to understand the dynamics of this country's politics. There is no such thing as “returning a political favor”. Truth be told and this is not political stereotype to set the record clear and history do not lie either, that ever since independence there has not been witnessed any solid and honest political support offered by the central Kenya region to any non-ethnic group. Never!

As to whether or not President Uhuru Kenyatta retains his seat as the fourth aid-De-camp of Kenya, his deputy-William Ruto and by extension the Kalenjins must just let go of the 2022 presidential ambitions because of a serious possible renege by their cajolers unless they read this article to prove me otherwise with my own words someday. That is why I opine that, with the strong emergence of once an outspoken presidential bidder in the last poll (2013), one Mr. Peter Kenneth as an official associate of the Jubilee Party, Kalenjins must reconsider critically their choices of 2022 dreams and make a wise about turn before it is dawn and before it turns paler.