Panic In Kibaki Re-Election Team?

From: Gordon Teti

Friday, September 21, 2007;

Evidence continues to mount that Raila Amollo Odinga and his ODM party may indeed be winning in the high stakes political game that will culminate in the mother of all general elections at the end of this year.

I have just received some more figures from yet another source who assures me that these are the latest NSIS estimates on the three main presidential candidates.

Kibaki 3.56 million votes

Raila 4.54 million votes

Kalonzo 1.83 million votes.

This is behind a backdrop where more than 900 hopefuls flocked into Orange House on a single day to seek nomination papers, most of them paying the required Kshs 100,000 nomination fee. Quick calculations give you KShs 900 million. It is unlikely that any other political party will be able to match that kind of popularity. It tells you that clearly ODM is currently the most popular political party in the country.

Interestingly, so far there is no confusion between ODM yawa and Ho Ndii Emm, at least not in the eyes of the candidates.

But on a more serious note, the big question Kenyans need to address themselves to is; how will the PNU crowd react to this clear lead that ODM has? How will old hands like Moi who are used to playing it dirty respond? One thing you can be sure of is that they will not just sit around and take everything lying down.