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President has right to endorse any person for the presidency

President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. [PSCU]

On President Uhuru Kenyatta 'succeeding himself', let me play the devil’s advocate for once. I wouldn't want, like any other Kenyan, a Putin-like arrangement where the person in office plays a secondary role to the person legitimately elected to be my president.

Resistance to what is now in the public domain, that Uhuru will endorse Raila Odinga, should be framed better. It should not come out as a political threat to national stability.

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