Celebrated radio personality Maina Kageni will vie for Nairobi County Women Representative seat on August 8 as an independent candidate.
He has been cleared by the registrar of political parties and Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
He made the announcement on Wednesday at noon after telling his fans to look forward to a major announcement on his Classic 105 show.
Maina, in a video shared widely said that his fans have been pushing him to run for the seat.
The seat is conventionally perceived to be a preserve for women.
He is the first man to ever vie for the seat and his symbol is a wig. He will battle it out with Jubilee’s Rachael Shebesh and ODM’s Esther Passaris.
Here is his message:
“My fellow Kenyans I wanna thank you so so much for the faith you had in me, for more than 10 years I have sat on air and addressed issues that regard women in Kenya. And it started as a joke and people kept saying “you need to run for women representative” and initially I didn’t take them seriously but I realized the demand was real. So after much thought, after much consideration and consultation with Nairobi’s women, with the electorates and with supporters of Classic 105, I decided that this is the time to make a move. If we stay where we are we will never make a difference. And so I initially began the process of being able to be sure that am gonna be on the ballot. And the first place I went to was the registrar of political parties who dully issued this certificate to me as an independent candidate.”
