Kuria Kimani urges residents to end one-term trend in Nakuru politics
By Cy Muganda, August 2, 2025Molo MP Francis Kuria Kimani has called on Nakuru residents to abandon the region’s trend of voting out governors after a single term, rallying support for current Governor Susan Kihika to be re-elected in 2027.
Speaking in Njoro on August 1, 2025, Kimani said Nakuru has, over the years, exhibited a pattern of electing governors only to send them home after five years, a trend he described as unfair and destabilising.
The legislator criticised this trend by drawing a comparison to the historical volatility of politics in Molo.
“We have gotten used to bad behaviour here in Nakuru; we have become like the people of Molo in the past. Everyone, after five years, goes home; five years, goes home,” Kimani stated
Historical pattern
The MP traced Nakuru’s pattern of single-term governors, citing the cases of the county’s first two governors who were both voted out after their initial terms.
“We had Kinuthia Mbugua as our first governor. After five years, we sent him home. Then came Lee Kinyanjui — again, after five years, we sent him home. Now we have Susan Kihika,” he recounted.
Using a marriage analogy to illustrate his point about political consistency, Kimani questioned the logic of continuously changing leadership.
“If you’re a man and you marry your first wife and throw her out, marry a second and throw her out, marry a third and throw her out — are you trying to say all your wives are bad?” he asked residents.
He urged residents to ensure that Kihika breaks the county’s one-term jinx by backing her for a second term in office, arguing that the culture of short-term leadership hampers the county’s opportunity for continuity and sustained development.
“Therefore, let us agree, this matter of one term in Nakuru will end with our governor serving a second term as the Nakuru governor,” he stated.
2022 general elections
Reflecting on the 2022 elections, Kimani attributed the electoral outcomes to divine intervention, noting how voters made their choices independently without external pressure.
“Citizens in the last election were given very many candidates to choose from. We had honourable Ruto, we had honourable Raila and others. Here in Nakuru, we had our governor, Susan and others who were competing with her and Kenyans who did not sleep in the same house, who did not fight for phones, who did not speak to each other. God guided them,” he said.
The MP also highlighted the comprehensive victory of Kenya Kwanza candidates in Nakuru, noting that voters elected Governor Kihika, the Women Representative, and President William Ruto.
“We in large numbers gave our governor, our women rep and our president William Samoei Ruto,” Kimani noted.