Raila's about-turn to back presidential system hurting him

ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga. (Photo: Collins Oduor/Standard)

There is no better example of one paying the price of their own victory than Raila Odinga’s, and by extension NASA’s, current challenges in naming a joint presidential candidate.

When Kenya’s history is accurately written, it will record that few leaders have invested as much as the then Prime Minister Raila Odinga in ensuring the writing of, and eventual passage, of the Constitution of Kenya 2010. From his days as Opposition chief to the Bomas of Kenya process, to the defeat of the maligned Wako draft and the eventual passage of the Constitution during the Grand Coalition season, Kenyans have a lot to thank Raila for the new constitutional dispensation.