It is quite unfortunate that politicians are needlessly stoking the embers and spoiling for a fight following an announcement by the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and Jubilee that they will both be holding rallies at the same venue today.
In the last few days ODM has said it was finalising plans to hold a rally at a nondescript venue — the Masinde Muliro grounds in Mathare — to drum up supports for its leader Raila Odinga who intends to seek nomination to vie for the presidency. Jubilee has also laid claim to the venue, and Mathare MP Steven Kariuki, who recently defected from ODM to join the Jubilee Party (JP), said they would be holding a rally to beat the drums for their leader, Mr Uhuru Kenyatta, the nation’s president.