Why Raila should be president before he exits the political stage

I am a Suba. But my friend Odhiambo Kaumah insists I am a Luo-Abasuba. Now, politically, Suba is an obvious Raila's hotbed of votes. And most of us Subas think as Luos. Our politics, language, culture and identity are, typically, Luo. Something I have blamed on the historical goof by our forefathers but which remains a story for another day. Today I wish only to state why I think the right Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga should be president-- before he finally exits the stage.

I stay with an uncle in Nairobi. And sometimes we get down to discussing politics. And each time, he cannot hide his bitterness and hate. He thinks that some single ethnic hegemony is to blame for all the maladies in this country. That everyone that traces their pedigree to that ethnic group is not to be friended or trusted with anything. A jaundiced assertion which I think is largely untrue. My lecturer taught me something about prejudice and the dangers of it. So when I argue with my uncle who never had the privilege of meeting a lecturer, I become his lecturer.