Things are falling apart at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and its chairman, Wafula Chebukati is simply the centre that cannot hold. He has done in a year, what took Raila Odinga three years, many tear gas Mondays and a joint parliamentary push to do. Mr Chebukati has torn the commission apart and is a classic example of the weakest link.
The work of a chair in any commission is to be the glue that binds it, instead, Mr Chebukati is like a repulsive magnet that has driven four commissioners out of office; a single one who ran away to the USA and the three who resigned this month.