Accusations of graft and poor performance have dogged Johnson Sakaja ever since his surprise victory in August 2022 and he survived a planned impeachment motion in September only with the support of State House (AC Vol 63 No 17 How the hustlers toppled the dynasties)...

Media investigations revealed that the thugs were sponsored and provisioned by Kenya Kwanza politicians having allegedly been procured earlier by security aides to Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja...

Protests that day were largely peaceful despite pro-Ruto politicians including Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja having been reported hiring goons and motorbike taxi riders to disrupt them and stage a counterprotest with some success...

In Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja who is vying for the UDA chair was not on the election register and unable to vote (Dispatches 30/4/24 State House has a problem with Nairobi's political boss)...

Nairobi's Sakaja Johnson won the Nairobi governorship against the run of the other results which all favoured Azimio...

In the Nairobi senate race Equity Bank executive Polycarp Igathe lost to the UDA's Sakaja Johnson...

The complex pre-election power-sharing deal between the parties in Odinga's Azimio which brought together Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement Kenyatta's Jubilee Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper party and the Kenya African National Union of Gideon Moi saw the ODM's Tim Wanyonyi abandon his plans to run in favour of Jubilee's candidate Equity Bank executive Polycarp Igathe who will take on Nairobi senator and UDA candidate Johnson Sakaja...

But he also angered key elements of his party notably the northern Kenya senators whose defiance of the party position was bolstered by erstwhile Kenyatta loyalists such as the outspoken Nairobi senator Sakaja Johnson...