Why those prescribing ‘boardroom’ democracy for us are dead wrong

There has recently been a chorus of calls by sections of the diplomatic missions in Kenya who have variously been quoted asking President Uhuru Kenya to negotiate the issue of the Kenyan presidency with the NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga and reach a settlement.

The President would be ill-advised to succumb to such reckless calls as they would not only be contemptuous of the Supreme Court of Kenya that ruled on Presidential Election Petition Number 1 of 2017 that ordered the IEBC to conduct a fresh Presidential Election in strict conformity with the Constitution and the applicable election laws within 60 days of the determination, but it would also offend Article 136 of the constitution of Kenya 2010 that requires the President to be elected by registered voters in a national election conducted in accordance with the Constitution and any Act of Parliament regulating presidential elections.