{"id":147171,"date":"2026-07-18T11:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/sudi-dismisses-gachaguas-7-million-votes-claim-after-ol-kalou-by-election-victory\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:03:05","slug":"sudi-dismisses-gachaguas-7-million-votes-claim-after-ol-kalou-by-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/sudi-dismisses-gachaguas-7-million-votes-claim-after-ol-kalou-by-election-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudi Dismisses Gachagua\u2019s \u20187 Million Votes\u2019 Claim After Ol Kalou By-Election Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya July 17 \u2013 Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi has dismissed former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua\u2019s assertion that he will marshal seven million votes from the Mt Kenya region against President William Ruto in the 2027 General Election, describing the claim as mathematically impossible.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sudi\u2019s 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\u2019s growing political shift away from President Ruto\u2019s Kenya Kwanza administration.<\/p>\n

Reacting to Gachagua\u2019s latest declaration, Sudi urged politicians to tone down what he termed as exaggerated political rhetoric and instead rely on verifiable voter statistics.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s all calm down and stop making wild proclamations like Gachagua, who just said he will mobilize Molima\u2019s seven million votes against Ruto in 2027. Seven million? From where?\u201d Sudi posed.<\/p>\n

The UDA legislator argued that available electoral data does not support Gachagua\u2019s figures, noting that the total votes cast across the Mt Kenya region in the 2022 presidential election stood at about 3.8 million.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast time I checked Molima total votes cast in 2022, for both Raila and Ruto, was 3.8 million,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Even with the additional registrations, he argued, the region could not produce more than four million votes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, 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\u2019t lie, Wamunyoros do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The outspoken MP also accused Gachagua\u2019s allies of deliberately inflating the region\u2019s political influence by comparing the number of registered voters with the number of votes cast in other regions.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the tricks Wamunyoros normally use to shore up their numbers and create an artificial \u2018tuko wengi\u2019 perception is they usually compare their registered votes total versus other regions\u2019 votes cast,\u201d Sudi claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat trick won\u2019t work anymore. We now compare registered versus registered, and cast versus cast.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exchange marks the latest escalation in the political rivalry between President Ruto\u2019s allies and Gachagua, who has intensified his criticism of the Kenya Kwanza administration following his fallout with the President.<\/p>\n

Gachagua has recently claimed that the Mt Kenya region would unite behind a single opposition-backed presidential candidate in 2027, insisting the bloc commands seven million votes capable of determining the outcome of the next General Election.<\/p>\n

His confidence has been bolstered by the opposition\u2019s victory in the Ol Kalou by-election, where DCP candidate Sammy Kamau Ngotho defeated the ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA) candidate Samuel Muchina Nyaga, handing Gachagua\u2019s party its first parliamentary seat and fuelling fresh debate over the political direction of the Mt Kenya region.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya July 17 \u2013 Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi has dismissed former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua\u2019s assertion that he will marshal seven million votes from the Mt Kenya region against President William Ruto in the 2027 General Election, describing the claim as mathematically impossible. Sudi\u2019s remarks come a day after the Democracy for the Citizens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}