Nasa flag bearer Raila Odinga addressing a delegation from Kiambu County at the Nasa secretariat in Lavington, Nairobi on July 3, 2017. New poll indicates Raila has closed in on President Uhuru Kenyatta. [Photo: nation.co.ke]
Two new polls show that NASA Presidential candidate Raila Odinga has almost closed the gap on President Uhuru Kenyatta in the last one month.
One conducted by Radio Africa Group indicates that Raila has narrowed the gap with President Uhuru polling at 49% while Raila polls closely at 44% meaning that neither would have a first round outright victory calling for a runoff.
Another poll by Radio Africa Group last month placed Raila at 39 per cent and Uhuru at 48 per cent.
The poll indicates that 7% of Kenyans or 1.3 million registered voters, still remain undecided.
In the second poll conducted by Nasa itself according to the Star newspaper, Uhuru is behind Raila with about 1% polling at 46.7% while Raila polls at 47.4%.
The poll was allegedly conducted by an American research firm and Nasa is expected to release it on Wednesday (today).
The Nasa poll indicates that there is discontent among Kenyans, with 42 percent strongly convinced the Jubilee administration has steered the country on the wrong economic path and only 36 percent are comfortable with the current situation.
“Unemployment tops voters’ concern at 56 percent, followed by corruption at 42 percent. The huge majority from both sides believe corruption has a large or moderate impact on unemployment (88 percent), cost of living (88 percent) and a shortage of food (82 percent),” reads part of the internal poll as quoted by the Star.