If JUBILEE is KANU reincarnate, what is CORD?

Let us for a moment entertain the claim by Hon. Raila Odinga that Jubilee is KANU reincarnate that aims at taking the country back to a monolithic one party state. Let us even assume this is not just another dishonest political gimmick. Let us then consider how free will legal decision by twelve or more parties to merge into one threatens the democratic space and how it inflicts the multiparty political dispensation guaranteed in the constitution.

The truth is, if the merging of parties that agree on ideology and the way forward is backward; then the shaky union of convenience by ODM, FORD-Kenya and Wiper to form CORD is worse because they lack the capacity to merge and trust internal party democracy to manage healthy democratic political competition. They prefer to remain separate private property whose owners can recall at will. That is certainly not what the 2010 constitution envisioned in a democratic multiparty political environment.