Opposition unity doesn't guarantee victory

Nasa leaders KANU's Nick Salat (from left) Moses Wetangula of Ford-Kenya,Musalia Mudavadi ,Amani,Raila Odinga of ODM and Kalonzo Musyoka of Wiper during the NASA Convention at Bomas of Kenya,Nairobi. (Photo/Elvis Ogina/Standard)

News of the opposition super-alliance is good for Kenya’s democracy. As a country, we desperately need to cultivate well-established and sufficiently delineated political blocs with distinct policy positions. Only then will wananchi make political choices based on predictable and believable policy promises.

 It is fair to say our current set up — in which elections are nothing more than ethnic census — is far from this ideal. Opposition unity, even though founded on the basis of ethnic arithmetic, is a step in the right direction.