Dramatic finish bound to leave voters drained after acrimonious poll

Someone needs to put us out of this electioneering misery. Can we just vote tomorrow? We are now growing sick and tired of electoral politics. These six months of 2017 already feel like six years of electioneering. To the weary Kenyan voter, a day has become like a thousand years.

Even the keenest political enthusiast can barely take it anymore. And for three reasons. The first is that the electioneering period is not a contest between two ideas. That would’ve been more exciting. It is instead the usual cyclical tribal tournament.