Handshake is a platform throughwhich elite are jostling for power

The recent announcement by the Wiper Party that it will work with Jubilee is hardly surprising, and shows the increasing lack of choices in the country’s democratic landscape.

While opposition parties are rival formations to the governing party, from which they hope to take power one day the Wiper party, like the Orange Democratic Movement, its NASA counterpart, has chosen cooperation with Jubilee, in a process that imperils the country’s multiparty status. Opposition leader, Raila Odinga, led in what has become a capitulation by the opposition when, in March, he was involved in an unexpected public display of amity with President Uhuru Kenyatta, now referred to as the handshake.