Sudi Dismisses Gachagua’s ‘7 Million Votes’ Claim After Ol Kalou By-Election Victory

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Sudi’s remarks come a day after the Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) secured a major victory in the Ol Kalou parliamentary by-election, a result that Gachagua and his allies have portrayed as evidence of the region’s growing political shift away from President Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza administration.

Reacting to Gachagua’s latest declaration, Sudi urged politicians to tone down what he termed as exaggerated political rhetoric and instead rely on verifiable voter statistics.

“Let’s all calm down and stop making wild proclamations like Gachagua, who just said he will mobilize Molima’s seven million votes against Ruto in 2027. Seven million? From where?” Sudi posed.

📌 What You Need to Know

The UDA legislator argued that available electoral data does not support Gachagua’s figures, noting that the total votes cast across the Mt Kenya region in the 2022 presidential election stood at about 3.8 million.

According to Sudi, the figure includes votes from both President Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and factors in cosmopolitan counties such as Nakuru, Kiambu and Laikipia, alongside Nairobi, where he said a significant number of Mt Kenya voters reside.

“Last time I checked Molima total votes cast in 2022, for both Raila and Ruto, was 3.8 million,” he said.

Sudi further noted that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has registered about 527,000 new voters in counties associated with the Mt Kenya voting bloc since the last General Election.

Even with the additional registrations, he argued, the region could not produce more than four million votes.

“So, long arithmetic simplified, there is no universe where Gachagua gives anyone above four million votes, even assuming they vote 100 per cent for his preferred presidential ticket. Maths don’t lie, Wamunyoros do,” he said.

📰 Source: Capital FM Kenya

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