‘I Will Join the Race’: Passaris Issues Warning to Sakaja Over Nairobi

Nairobi Woman Representative Esther Passaris has actually provided a direct caution to Governor Johnson Sakaja, putting him on notification while indicating her prospective entry into the 2027 Nairobi gubernatorial contest as political pressure installs throughout the capital.
Speaking on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, throughout a top-level females’s retreat in Nairobi, Passaris advised Sakaja to raise his administration’s efficiency. She specified that she would go into the gubernatorial race if she ends up being persuaded that the broad-based political development dangers losing the county’s leading seat to the opposition.
“I wish to put Sakaja on notification. Guv Sakaja, notification. If you do not design up and form up and we see that we’re going to lose that seat, then Mimi Nitaingia, the race ya guv wa Nairobi,” Passaris stated.
Firmly insisting that city locals need concrete governance results instead of rhetoric, she included:
“I am in fact stating that Nairobi requires to work, not simply in words however in action.”

Female Representation Deficit in Nairobi Leadership
Passaris connected part of Nairobi’s present governance difficulties to what she referred to as a consistent deficit in ladies’s optional management.
To highlight her issues relating to gender equity in county governance, Passaris mentioned particular electoral stats:
In the County Assembly, the variety of chosen ladies Members of County Assembly (MCAs) in Nairobi decreased from 5 in 2017 to 4 in 2022.
In the National Assembly, just one female was chosen to represent Nairobi’s 17 parliamentary constituencies in both the 2017 and 2022 General Elections, particularly Mercy Gakuya for Embakasi Central in 2017 and Beatrice Elachi for Dagoretti North in 2022.
Throughout magnate and county positions, ladies stay missing from crucial seats consisting of the governorship, deputy governorship, and Senate.
“When you take a look at Nairobi and the failures that we have in Nairobi, it is due to the fact that we do not have females representation,” Passaris kept in mind.
Moving Political Ambitions Ahead of 2027
Passaris’s cautioning to Sakaja marks the most recent twist in her progressing method for the upcoming 2027 General Election.
The second-term legislator at first showed she would not look for re-election as Woman Representative, considering the Makadara parliamentary seat and backing chosen Senator Karen Nyamu as a possible follower. She later on dropped the Makadara quote to concentrate on keeping her existing seat before her newest remarks presented the possibility of a run for City Hall.