Raila the powerful man with no Government title but can’t be ignored in 2022 election

Formidable force: President Uhuru Kenyatta with ODM leader Raila Odinga. [File, Standard]

Once written off as a spent force and who had utilised his last bullet, Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga has not only confounded his supporters and naysayers but is now a formidable element in the 2022 political matrix.

While the other political parties are in a shambles and more still disintegrating, his ODM is pulling together. Events of the last few weeks in Jubilee and Ford Kenya parties have left him stronger.