Clearly, politicians are craving for return of one-party system

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga react during the launch of the collection of signatures for the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) at KICC in Nairobi on November 25, 2020. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Our political superstructure, it seems, was meant for a single political party. In the last one month until Tuesday, the ODM and Jubilee parties were rooting for a coalition ahead of 2022.

The giant political parties’ alliances could have mounted a powerful oligarch to frustrate the visions of single independent parties and independent candidates. It could have been an indication that we are nostalgic about our state of affairs before 1992. Thank God, Jubilee has suspended the move to focus on mending the party’s internal fissures.