Bahati is still depressed after losing the Mathare parliamentary seat in the just concluded August 9, 2022, General Election. He wants people to stop calling him ‘mhesh or mheshimiwa’ which means ‘honourable’.
Bahati stopped posting on social media for about two months after the shock defeat in Mathare parliamentary election.
The last post on his social media account before he went silent was on August 11, 2022, when he was complaining about being rigged out.
The singer performed dismally in the Mathare constituency race where he finished a distant third.
ODM’s Anthony Oluoch won the race after garnering 28,098 votes, UDA’s Bilian Ojiwa came second after securing 16,912 votes while Bahati finished a distant third with 8,166 votes.
Bahati went underground after Mathare voters ‘broke’ his heart by electing his fierce rival Anthony Oluoch.
He invested heavily in campaigning for the Mathare constituency seat. Speaking in an interview with Tanzanian blogger Millard Ayo just days before the election, he disclosed that he had spent Ksh33 million since beginning his campaign for Mathare Member of Parliament (MP) seat and was prepared to spend Ksh10 million on the election date August 9.
“So far I have spent like Ksh 33 million. I am planning to spend Ksh 10 million on election day,” Bahati said.
On September 28, 2022, without any explanation, Bahati deleted all posts on his Instagram account.
He further relaunched himself as musician and dropped a new song dubbed ‘Mambo Ya Mhesh’.
The singer now wants people to stop calling him ‘mhesh’. In a post on social media, the singer pleaded with netizens to just call him by his name ‘Bahati’.
“Sielewi Mbona Bado Watu Wananiita MHESH… Niiteni tuu BAHATI Please ,” he wrote.
