Prof Sam Ongeri during a campaign event. [Photo/ Eric N]
Allow me go straight to the 3 top contenders for the Kisii Senate race. Forgive me. I value time and know my readers do too. So I won't deal with all the players, just the serious ones.
Jubilee's Charles Nyachae is a man who has lived in the shadow of his old father, Simeon Nyachae. Nothing much can be written about him apart from being a son of Nyachae. Was his dad's appointee to CIC Chair through Uhuru. A lawyer by profession but nothing to take home from him in the legal profession. He is simply Charles the son of Simeon Nyachae.PDP'S Omingo Magara is a lost child. The once upon a time ODM Treasurer has never found his bearing after going to bed with Jubilee immediately after the 2013 elections. His actions are Jubilee yet he is out to fool the Kisiis that he is in NASA. His close alliance with Jubilee and attempt to hoodwink the Kisiis that he is NASA will be his major undoing. No wonder he is a distant third after Charles Nyachae in the recent opinion polls. The Kisiis respect decisiveness. ODM'S Prof Samson Ongeri is the man of the moment. His Jubilee to ODM about turn was the Damascus experience that has made him the Paul of the moment, the darling of the masses. He bitterly dumped Jubilee and ODM is his new love.
He walks, talks, dreams NASA and Raila Odinga. Surprising enough, when NASA was in Nyamira the other day, the masses demanded to hear from the good professor. NASA Principal Musalia Mudavadi had to give in to the people's demand.
In the Tuesday's tour of Raila Odinga and his NASA brigade to Kisii County, Raila had to land at Masimba, which is Prof Ongeri's home turf just to show how much the good professor means to the NASA team. With a solid development record and a respected figure in the community, he seems to have done the right thing at the right time - joining NASA'S ODM. He acted decisively and it is this decisiveness that has endeared him to the people more so the young generation. Talking of striking while the iron is hot, politically. He is now where the majority of the people want him to be in the current politics.With Kisii being NASA's home turf and all indications showing NASA will carry the day, in the words of the youthful sports gamblers, Prof Samson Ongeri is a sure bet for the Kisii Senatorial Seat.