NASA death gives Raila the tough option of hunting in hostile ground

Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga prays facing Mt. Kenya when he met Githurai traders and Kikuyu council of elders at their Headquarters in Ruaka, Nairobi on January 14, 2020. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

That Raila Odinga is walking the political tightrope is not in doubt.

The announcement this week that his ODM party was leaving the National Super Alliance (Nasa), was the last nail in the coffin of a troubled political marriage between him and his former co-principals in ANC, Ford Kenya and the Wiper Democratic Party.