Nobody in ODM could come up with a rebuttal that Uhuruto + Kalonzo would not sweep Nairobi at at-least a 60:40 ratio. Then he punched Nairobi numbers, with reference to the last election, corrected a bit with some new math. He told Raila: Kalonzo can not be allowed to team up with Uhuruto. Preventing an Uhuru presidency had become the core of siasa moto-moto as Jukwaa's Nereah would call it: Saving the nation from Uhuru's ICC rule!ĭalmas Otieno Pache Ohingo Pachji, can't be anybody else, the evil genius of KANU mathematics, first drove it home. Seeing the courts, local or not, could not be relied on to do the job, how then to beat UK at the ballot, realistically speaking? Raila was no longer the man to beat. And when Ruto became Uhuru's public running mate, the definitive event had happened, the Big-Bang, to which other players would must react, with final best sets. I think, that the possibility of an ICC-Uhuru presidency for real, with its international implications, and another MK tenure at the helm, has been the real shaker and mover of other moves. The CJ nerve-racked and biting his nails. Practically holding the nation hostage, and, worse, reading from the subsequent appointments to cabinet and other top government jobs, effectively assuming command of the state from Kibaki, or the Rasputin Wanjohi who has usurped decisions as he keeps the PORK in coma.Įven the judiciary has stood to attention in all cases involving Kenyatta. That is something.Īt the same time, enjoying the support of his own feet, newly discovered, he carried on a national bluff-poker of being on the ballot whatever Ocampo or his able Bensouda replacement did. The son of Jomo, hitherto always someone else's project, emerged as his own man. Not to mention that the polls continuously ranked him second. In the frenzied ululations of the CORD phenomenon, as witnessed on Jukwaa by several of our stalwart correspondents, majorly Foresight and Omwenga ora, I think there is a palpable refusal to analyse the phoenix that Uhuru had become, so they fail to give the devil his dues.ĭitched by Kibaki and the older power Moguls of the house of Mumbi, Uhuru nevertheless stuck to his guns and, with an assortment of rabid techniques, cannibalised PNU, marginalised PNU's allies, and managed to create the perception that he had bagged the 4m plus votes in MK. ![]() ![]() In my opinion one of the most fascinating characters in Kenyan political thinking, Heavy D. ![]() DALMAS OTIENO: LOOKING FOR LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
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