With the latest announcement at a women's conference in Nairobi by former Adopt a Light CEO, Esther Passaris that she will be vying for the Nairobi gubernatorial seat is good news for the ordinary Nairobi voter.
Passaris joins a long list of those politicians who have either declared the candidature for the city’s top seat or hinted at doing so.
It is good news since most of these candidates are financially well-oiled and are guaranteed to spend heavily on the Nairobi electorate in a bid to woo them to their side.
The candidates for have so far declared or hinted that they are interested in the capital’s big slot parliament; Dennis Waweru, former Starehe MP, Margaret Wanjiru, nominated legislator and the ruling party chair, Johnson Sakaja, former controversial aide to Raila Odinga, Miguna Miguna, Water and Irrigation Cabinet Secretary, Eugene Wamalwa among many others who are yet to come up publicly.
The list keeps growing by the day and if you add other many contenders for several political slots like senatorial, Members of Parliament, Women representatives, and several Members of County Assemblies then definitely Nairobians have cause to celebrate in terms of the substantial goodies that these politicians will shower them with.
It is noteworthy to mention that most of these politicians are financially well endowed and are bound to pull all stops in their financial expenditure either directly or indirectly to have a head-start this they will do either throw open dishing of cash hand-outs, logistics like advertisement, recruiting campaign staff,transport,printing of campaign merchandise and so forth and it is no doubt a positive pointer to majority Nairobi dwellers.