Political analyst Mutahi talking during a past event. He has rubbished the just concluded voter registration. [Photo: brostalk.com]
Renowned political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi has rubbished the just concluded voter registration exercise saying that it achieved nothing.
Ngunyi has also indicated that the major loser of the month-long exercise was the opposition ragtag NASA that is still struggling to pick a presidential candidate."According to the latest IEBC figures, Jubilee gained an extra 898,000 voters while NASA gained an extra 814,000 voters through registration. But if you subtract 800 from 800, the answer is zero. And this is why I am saying voter registration achieved zero. Put differently, Uhuru didn't win over voter registration. What actually happened is that NASA lost," said Ngunyi on Sunday in his YouTube channel.In what he termed as his 'unsolicited advice' to NASA, Ngunyi said that the probability of NASA winning the presidential was low but still achievable if they did a few things."What they lost in registration, they must gain in voter turnout. But there are two problems here. Number one, super alliances create an illusion of early victory, and this illusion degenerates into low voter turnout. The 2002 super alliance under NARC attracted the lowest voter turnout in the history of our politics. Number two high turnout is only possible if there is something to be gained," he said.He added: "If Raila is the candidate, the Luo nation will vote, if he is not, they will stay away. This also applies to Kalonzo and Mudavadi. If they are not part of the top two, their voters will stay away and this is the NASA dilemma. What is my point here and what is my advice then, voter turnout can only be increased through a runoff and this is what exactly what Kalonzo is trying to force so the NASA brigade must not fight him in my view."