The SELLOUT Babu Owino believes the Luo community leadership is taken through opinion polls.
Babu Owino spends a lot of time cooking opinion polls and using reverse pyschology to paint these opinion polls as reality.
These imaginative polls have become an obsession for Babu Owino.
You talk to Babu Owino and he has to refer to these feckless polls.
He is popular because the polls say he is popular and hence should assume the leadership of the Luo? How?
He is popular because the polls say he is popular and hence should assume ODM Party leadership? Since when?
There was no time in the history of the Luo community that its leadership was assumed based on opinion polls.
That Babu Owino has to conduct self-promoting opinions polls (or pollaganda) to place himself ahead of other Luos is reason enough to know he is behind.
Babu Owino can conduct a million opinion polls but there will never be a day when the leadership of the Luo community will be based on opinion polls.
There was a time ahead of 2013 polls when Miguna Miguna was more popular on TV than even Raila Odinga.
On Social Media, Cambridge Analytica algorithms made him the daily social media talk.
On mainstream press and on the JKL benches, Miguna Miguna was the newsmaking king across Kenya, getting acres of airtime and newspaper front pages.
When he attempted to use that airtime to contest for Nairobi governor, the same characters who cheered him on TV and on social media, voted for Sonko.
Manufacturing popularity using dubious polling is old, stale politics. Siasa imepitiwa na wakati.
In the goat market, the hyena farmer had the highest crowds but when evening came, it was the goat farmer who traded his goats for millet.
The hyena farmer was left to tend to his hyena.
