Are they the most democratic tribe in Kenya because they rarely vote their own or is it simply that they are divided. Judging by their numbers if they were to speak with one voice politically they would outdo the Gema in terms of building alliances and taking over the leadership. But times has shown they would never stand with their own or even speak in one voice. Most of the time have always supported Raila and even now 70% still support him and other 30%will support jubilee. Their own leaders from there such as Mudavadi are not assured of any imaginable support and would be floored by even these major political parties if elections are called today. Maybe the Luhyas and Kisii, Somali in a similar manner represents the kenyan politics of the future of the lack of one man show or tribal lords
More divided than Somalis. The only time they’ll ever be united is when AFC are playing Gor
Wacha mauchungu meffi.
In Kenya there is a division of revenue bill that already determines how funds will be distributed throughout every region of the country, combine that with local county governments means the concept of being in office to receive goodies is the biggest bullshit being purported by our leaders, every region in Kenya is already in office.
Having a good governor and a functioning county government is more beneficial than sharing a last name with the elites of the executive. Compare what Mutua did during his first years before his political battles vs others who were in “power”, and its not only him but others like Oparanya and Kivuthia etc…
But Kenyans have yet to realize that the county government is closer and more important to development than the national government (due to the Moi and Jomo days trauma).
But truth be said, Mariga was not the right candidate for Kibra.How Ruto got him defeats me. It was better they could have teamed up with Mudavadi to front Owalo.
Anyway hii ni siasa tu
pole sana luhyias will never follow Ruto…they might have voted for mariga but only if he had been fronted by someone else other than Ruto and khalwale…and I have said it here again and again that Rao is respected in luhyialand so if Ruto wants luhyia votes don’t mock Rao, don’t mock madvd and don’t mock weta…Use a different strategy.
To a kivutha kibwana hapo
There is no tribe called Luhya. They dont speak the same language. Luhya was a concept by colonial administrators from around 1940s for governance purposes which they created by amalgamating several groups of people. As usual, Africans do what the mzungu says, no question. A tribe by nature should have a common language, Luhyas are not mutually intelligible.
Do you mean that they are more than Gema? You must be stupid if not illiterate.
Bullshit. There is a tribe called luhya. They have sub tribes but all the dialects can be understood by the other members.
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True.Many factors contributed to Imran’s win,his brother’s development record which he was part of,Mariga was a political non starter who was a gamble,Mudavadi is a spoiler etc Raila should not delude himself that he is popular because of the Imran win in fact the only Luhyas that have been voting for ODM are near Maseno and some parts of Kakamega
All the counties in Luhyaland have traditionally voted for Raila. Things only changed in 2017 but not with a big margin
And vihiga?
2013 Raila got 47% in Vihiga. 4000 less than Madvd
VIHIGA COUNTY
Registered voters: 202,822
Votes cast: 167,573 82.6
Invalid votes: 2,079 01.2
Valid votes: 165,494 98.8
Candidate Party Votes %
Mohammed A Dida ARC 467 00.3
Martha Karua NRC 591 00.4
Peter Kenneth KNC 538 00.3
Uhuru Kenyatta TNA 2,542 01.5
James Kiyiapi RBK 802 00.5
Musalia Mudavadi UDF 82,426 49.8
Paul Muite Safina 303 00.2
Raila Odinga ODM 77,825 47.0
Total 165,494
Only some sections of Vihiga, that’s why I mentioned the areas near Maseno…If Mudavadi can retire from politics Raila will see dust
hehehe you are luhyia from which sub county?
Raila has only popular in Vihiga and Kakamega, look at the seats ODM won even in 2013, outside the 2 counties ANC is popular and Jubilee has gained tract because of Ruto. The only thing that unites Luhyas is Anti-uthamaki, with that factor gone Raila will see fewer votes in Western
great…I like such facts…give us the rest of western counties for 2012 and 2017. one thing I know is Raila lost ground in kakamega in 2017 compared to 2012