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How Raila Odinga's brilliant strategy works against him eventually

ODM leader Raila Odinga at County Hall, Nairobi, on November 24, 2022. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Raila Odinga and some of his 1990s Young Turk peers have made it hard for successive governments to trust him with power.

Not because he is not fit, but we know that a person becomes president once the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission's (IEBC) presidential returning officer (the IEBC chairperson) declares them winners.

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