Elections are about trust, the absence of which leads to chaos

Let’s reverse the situation and assume Wafula Chebukati had announced that Raila Odinga had won the presidential elections last August 8; how would the Jubilee side of the spectrum have reacted? I guess the reaction would have been exactly the same. Uhuru Kenyatta would have gone to the Supreme Court. The problem with the electoral system is not so much about systems or how perfect they are.

It is all about trust. Raila Odinga decided to withdraw from the October 26 election inherently not because he is really concerned about the systems; they are difficult to perfect. Remember the US presidential elections that brought Donald Trump to power? There were lots of hullabaloos in America as well about how the elections were rigged. The same went for Al Gore versus George Bush junior in the year 2000. In America the aggrieved parties accept and move on simply because they put their country ahead of their interests. The elections in Kenya shall never be perfect. Only when we start developing trust for the institutions then shall we have faith in the outcome. It is not just about IEBC; Kenyans simply don’t have trust in any institution.