It’s delicate balancing act for Raila as political ground shifts

ODM leader Raila Odinga and other leaders at the opening of Ugunja vocational training college in Siaya, last Friday. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

The covert dalliance of Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i in 2022 succession race has swelled the mist around opposition leader Raila Odinga’s actual game-plan.

With Raila often describing him as a son and warding off those calling out for his endorsement, the Matiang’i factor has come to rattle an already delicate succession matrix that also entails ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi, Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka and Ford Kenya’s Moses Wetangula.