Political Scientist Dr Mutahi Ngunyi has said that Cord Leader Raila odinga's sell-by date is long expired and that the former Prime Minister is a slow punctured politician, a cat whose nine lives have expired,” as
evidenced by the unexpectedly but admittedly, low Saba Saba rally turn
out.
“As one of the Russian leaders Nikita Khrushchev said once, if you feed
people with revolutionary rhetoric today, they will listen to you, Saba
Saba, tomorrow they’ll come and listen to you, the day after tomorrow
they’ll listen to you but the fourth day they will tell you, to hell
with you because we’re tired of the rhetoric,” Ngunyi referenced.
In the interest of fairness however, CORD principle Moses Wetangula
blamed the low rally turn out on a government conspiracy to keep their
supporters away, accusing the police of restraining their supporters in
the slums.
Fidel as a choice of successor however, Ngunyi made clear, is a
calculation based on set precedent and not precedence.
“I think Raila is cursed by what the Greeks call the curse of Sisyphus;
2002 he rolled the stone with Kibaki, it tipped on the other side but
Kibaki claimed the victory. 2007 maybe he was actually the one who won
the election but before he could tip it the same thing happened. This
time round same thing, it rolled back, Saba Saba – it is rolling back.
My persuasion is that the gods don’t seem to be on his side; I
don’t think he will become President, he is better off appointing
somebody and as dynasties are jealous institutions, he had better start preparing Fidel to take up his place in Kenyan politics.
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