Kidero leads the race for Homabay governorship according to latest opinion polls.
Homabay Saturday 26th March, 2022:
Former Nairobi Governor Dr. Evans Kidero would whitewash opponents in the Homabay Gubernatorial race if elections were held today.
According to the latest opinion poll conducted by Mizani Africa, Kidero enjoys massive support in the county and would garner more than double the votes that his closest challenger, the current county Women Representative Gladys Wanga would manage to attract.
The poll findings released yesterday, Kidero, who lost the Nairobi gubernatorial race to the ousted former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko in 2017, has a 44.1 percent approval ratings while Wanga came in a distant second after polling 21.6 percent.
Former Kasipul Kabondo Member of Parliament Oyugi Magwanga was third with 15.3 percent approval ratings while ODM chairman John Mbadi came in fourth with 13.0 percent.
In the contest, which sought to find out the most preferred candidates in the county, Kidero who has extensively covered his home county since shifting base from the city would emerge tops making him the first governor to successfully run two counties since the advent of devolution.
The survey was conducted over a period of 10 days between March 8th to March 18th, 2022.
Majority of Homabay residents said in the survey that they would be confortable with a Kidero governoship as compared to other candidates in the race.
Others who made the cut in the poll are Isaiah Ogwe who managed 2.5 percent, Hammilton Orata would get 1.6 percent while Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Secretary General Akello Misori would only manage a paltry 0.4 percent. 1.5 percent of the respondents are still undecided.
The poll is an indication of the ground work that Kidero has deployed in recent times following a similar poll that was released in December 2021 predicting that the vocal Homabay Woman Representative Gladys Wanga would beat Dr. Kidero.
