The Mount Kenya region is a vote fertile region as history dictates.
It is a region that has always put its votes in one basket as far as the presidential elections are concerned.
The region enjoys almost half of the total registered voters in Kenya.
With the presidential term of Uhuru Kenyatta ending in 2022, it is crystal clear that the central region is yet to identify a political figure who can replace president Uhuru at the house on the hill.
Central Kenya has a lot of influential upcoming politicians and business tycoons who have a say on the social, political and economic context of this country.
It will be a big political loophole and dilemma for the central Kenya fraternity not to be part of the presidency.
I am saying so because chances of the fifth president coming from the region are minimal.
Central Kenya needs time to groom a politician who can comfortably win a presidential election.
The surest way of doing this will be to get the deputy president slot so as to remain close to State House and keep at par with emerging political trends.
It will be politically irrelevant for another central Kenya politician to succeed Uhuru since other regions will feel that central Kenya is dominating them.
If central Kenya wants to play safe in 2022, they have to rally behind a presidential candidate from another region and possibly get the running mate slot.
Apart from President Uhuru Kenyatta, no other leader in central Kenya has enormous support countrywide. They need time to get politically ripe.
The deputy presidency will be the most appropriate position for central fraternity so as to give them the warmth of the government as well as time to solve the post-2022 political matrices.
The electorate of Mount Kenya region is too large to lack a leader in the top positions of the country.
I strongly opine here that the most appropriate and highest position central Kenya region can get in the next polls is the deputy president.
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