Andrew Kibe contested for Lang’ata parliamentary seat in 2013 and terribly lost to ODM’s Joash Odiambo Olum.
Kibe wanted to replace Raila Odinga as Lang’ata MP but lost to Olum of the ODM party. Before that, Raila was the Lang’ata MP (at that time including Lang’ata and Kibera) for more than 20 years.
In that election, Olum defeated Nixon Korir by 7,654 votes. Korir contested on the URP ticket and got 17,740 votes while Olum won with 25,394. Kibe, who contested on a UDF party ticket, managed only about 1400 votes.
Korir captured the Lang’ata seat in the 2017 general election but lost in the 2022 election to Jalang’o who contested on an ODM ticket.
On Wednesday, April 12, 2023, Jalang’o told Kibe why he lost the Lang’ata seat while being interviewed virtually on his podcast.
The two discussed various issues ranging from their friendship, their professions, politics, the state of the nation among many other topics.
In that conversation, Jalang’o was very open to tell Kibe the reason why he failed to grab the Lang’ata parliamentary seat.
“I asked why you lost. They said your Lang’ata is in TNA, Onyonka, and those areas,” Jalas told Kibe.
The first-term MP pointed out that Kibe does not have a good understanding of all the streets in the Lang’ata constituency and he failed because he did not visit different neighborhoods to ask for votes.
“The votes are there in the ghetto. You were campaigning in bars,” Jalang’o told Kibe.
Kibe, for his part, congratulated the ODM MP for his victory in last year’s general election.
However, he admitted that he celebrated a lot when rumors emerged that the former broadcaster had failed to clinch the seat in his first attempt during the early stages of the counting process.
“First you knew that I laughed at you in the morning when I heard you lost. Brother, I fell down here. You would have seen me. I had celebrated that Jalas had not won. I was dead,” Kibe told the Lang’ata MP.
Jalang’o said he watched the video of the entertainer celebrating his loss and just ignored it, wishing he was also at the counting station to witness what was going on in the field.
