Kenya: Is TNA Recreating Imperial Presidency?

It was a reported public remark that he later strenuously recanted. But the statement that was recently attributed to Kabete MP Lewis Nguyai provides an invaluable perspective about how the current political elite view their voting populace. And this view is dominant: pervading the different, competing ethnic elites that are fighting to retain or garner political power.

Mheshimiwa Nguyai was quoted to have said that The National Alliance Party, recently launched by Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, would rather support a dog wearing TNA colours than someone donning colours of another political party. In his denial, Nguyai said he had been misquoted: That all he had referred to was a statement made sometime ago by a senior politician from Central Kenya about some political parties in the region being so powerful that even a dog standing on their ticket would have won.

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