President Uhuru Kenyatta and NASA leader Raila Odinga. The President may be edging Raila in three key counties (Photo/standardmedia.co.ke)
As the October 26 repeat presidential election nears closer, both NASA and Jubilee sides of the political divide have intensified campaigns in a bid to tilt the political scales in their favour.
However, it is Jubilee which is seemingly outdoing NASA in wooing the perceived battle grounds if the recent political happenings in the country is anything to go by.
With a combined total of about 1 million registered voters,Jubilee has identified Narok, Kajiado and Nyamira as important cog of a presidential winning machine and is keen to run away with the regions' votes.
Over the past few weeks, Jubilee has frequently visited the three counties in a bid to woo them to spearhead President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election bid. Already, in Narok and Kajiado counties,NASA candidates who lost in their respective bids for various seats in the August 8 poll have denounced the Odinga-led outfit and have vowed to throw their weight behind President Kenyatta. And the situation is not any different in Nyamira where former ODM County chairman James Gesami is the latest big-name to defect to the ruling party.
But it is NASA's lackluster approach to the defections that may be their biggest undoing even as the battle for numbers intensifies in the key battle grounds.
Raila Odinga has not been aggressive in reversing Jubilee gains in the three counties with only two weeks remaining to the much-awaited Raila-Uhuru rematch.
During the August 8 poll, Uhuru defeated Raila in all the aforementioned counties and should the former Prime Minister fail to respond quickly, the margin may only widen in this month's poll.