Has Raila been caught between a rock and a Handshake?

President Uhuru Kenyatta (C) flanked by Former Prime minister Raila Odinga (R) and Deputy William Ruto at the Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi during the official launch of the Building Bridges to a United Kenya Taskforce Report on October 26, 2020. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

ODM leader Raila Odinga is increasingly finding himself in an unfamiliar silent space, even as the Opposition suffers a loud lack of a formidable political figure.

The March 9, 2018 Handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and the ODM leader may have stopped heightened hostility that followed the State House contest, but put the last nail in the Opposition’s political coffin.