The Jubilee Party recently unveiled a team that will steer its campaigns ahead of the 2017 general elections.
As expected, Western region received its share of representation as three elected leaders from the region were appointed to the team.
They include Bungoma Governor Kenneth Lusaka, Mumias East MP Benjamin Washiali and Teso South MP Mary Emase.
But do these three have the capacity to marshal support for the Jubilee Party and help it garner majority votes during the polls?
I doubt. Why?
All the three do not command a large following in the vote-rich region.
The four counties of Busia, Bungoma, Kakamega and Vihiga, combined, have an estimated three million voters and every politician envisioning to vie for the presidency targets at scooping a sizable chunk of these votes.
Jubilee is positioning itself to give ODM leader Raila Odinga a run for his money and run away with a large fraction of votes here.
However, this might prove difficult.
Ms Emase represents Teso South, a constituency with approximately 40,000 registered voters according to the latest IEBC figures.
Going by the recent developments where Emase led a group Jubilee women politicians in a tour of her constituency and were given a rude welcome, then, she would not do much in marketing Jubilee not only in her constituency and Busia County but in the entire Western region.
Lusaka on the other hand, of late, has lost support in Bungoma County.
About two months ago, over ten MCAs elected through New Ford Kenya, the party through which he won the 2013 elections to become governor decamped to ODM and UDF.
Compared to Senator Moses Wetangula, the governor controls a small fraction of voters in the county.
If the opposite of this argument is anything to go by, the Wetangula wouldn't have won the 2014 senatorial by-election in which Mr Lusaka campaigned for former Webuye MP Mssikari Kombo.
Conclusively, therefore, Lusaka should have been the last man Jubilee should have placed its bet in wooing Western voters.
Washuali on the other hand, is a man who can't be depended on.
At the time Budalang'i MP Ababu Namwamba, Funyula's Paul Otuoma and Sirisia's John Waluke announced their departure from ODM, Washiali jumped ship and joined the three.
Days later, however, when he led a group of youth in erecting a Jubilee billboard in Mumias town, he was repulsed by a rival group that claimed Jubilee had done little in Western to warrant support.
Immediately after the incident, Washiali announced he would support ODM leader Raila Odinga in 2017.
So, is this the best man Jubilee can trust? No.
Jubilee has not done anything tangible in Western ever since it took over power.
Residents in the region feel sidelined and left in the dark. It would be hard to market Jubilee in this expansive region.
Lusaka, Washiali and Emase have an anthill task to poplarise President Uhuru Kenyatta's presidential candidature in the four counties that constitute Western.
Cord or the yet to be constituted and launched National Super Alliance, after August 8, 2017 will have the final party in Western.