Is ODM scared of rising stars and new political landscape?

The Sacred Alliance has scared the top brass of ODM. But it has not just scared them, it has given them a scar in Ematungu, the resting place of Nabongo Mumia (1849 – 1949). ODM is scarred following the electoral defeat last week in the by-election in the place modern people call Matungu. If we may not say with Thomas Hardy, “Think how the mighty are fallen,” could we at least say, “Think how the mighty are falling?”  

For in the life of the current Parliament, the Orange Party has had bad outings in a series of by-elections. They have fallen in Ugenya, Embakasi South, Msambweni and now Matungu. The political behemoth of 2007 is shrinking and shriveling. It did not even field a candidate in the Kabuchai by-election. Kabuchai is the extended backyard of the rural home of ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna. Sifuna crowed during the campaigns that ODM was tired of carrying ANC and Ford Kenya baggage. He has eaten humble pie at home. He has lately been silent, nibbling at the bread of sorrow and sipping wormwood and waters of affliction.