Next President faces tough job whipping MPs to do his bidding

President Uhuru Kenyatta delivers his State of the Nation address at Parliament, 2017. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The August 9 General Election is set to usher Kenya into a new and intricate experience with multiparty democracy. The elections herald the arrival of the dominant ethnic political party that must have its way in the Legislature.

The inverse is the death of the dominant nationalist party behemoths that have previously straddled the national landscape and had it their way in Parliament. Super political party majorities in Parliament are clearly on the way out.