Why coalitions in Kenya are usually doomed to fail from the onset

ODM Leader Raila Odinga with President Uhuru Kenyatta during ODM NDC 2022 at Kasarani Stadium on February 26 2022. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Reports emerged this past week that Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition council chairman Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to resign. Jubilee party vice chair David Murathe said the retired head of state would be stepping away from party matters to focus on his peace project. Murathe also spoke of there being no need to have "two drivers steering the same bus" (read Azimio), pointing out that the bus now had one driver in the person of ODM leader Raila Odinga.