Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja is among youthful politicians in the city.
Sakaja’s popularity is steadily rising even as the 2022 succession politics start to take shape.
The Nairobi Jubilee senator joined politics at a young age of 23 in 2005.
Sakaja played a crucial role leading youths in the push for the 2005 constitutional referendum under the watch of former president Mwai Kibaki.
The proposed constitution was however rejected.
In 2007, he was part of Kibaki’s campaign team.
In 2013, the Senator was appointed as the TNA chairman and led campaigns for President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The senator was then nominated as MP after TNA won the 2013 presidential election.
Sakaja who draws his inspiration from Kibaki, won the Nairobi senate seat in 2017.
He won the seat on a Jubilee ticket.
The University of Nairobi (UoN) Actuarial Science graduate says that he had no heart for politics but found himself it.
“My heart and interest was in financial issues and business and I found myself in politics courtesy of Mwai Kibaki,” he says.
Sakaja who is a talented guitarist says that he is in politics to stay and his agenda is to serve Kenyans and more so Nairobians.
There are reports that the senator could contest for the Nairobi governor seat in 2022 owing to his popularity in Kibera and the larger Nairobi.
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