I am proud of what Raila Odinga has done

As I walked to the stage to get a matatu to town, my attention was trapped to the headlines that I saw on one of the leading newspapers in the country, being a Kenyan I acted the Kenyan way, make quick halt at the newspaper vendor and have a closer look, it read " I am ready to step down in 2017 race: Raila Odinga” for a moment I thought this was some kind of joke, "Raila odinga step down! Not wishing to get late to my daily business, I decided ok, fine I’ll just go to my phone and read the all story as I move on. 

As I went through the news on my screen, I was intrigued with the part that Raila said the words, and I quote “Must it be me? No! I am prepared to support others if they have better prospects of beating Jubilee hands down” and I thought to myself, this was the highest level of political maturity that Kenya and even the African continent needs, must it be me? I personally loved that statement, for me and other Kenyans.