Reading histories of great political lives gives out one obvious conclusion; success in politics is more of luck than hard work, though hard work and luck can blend into a great success story of political life. Looking at the political life of Raila Odinga in Kenya gives out nothing else but a palpable evidence of hard work in service for personal political ambitions without intervention of luck other than bad luck. In a contrast a look at the young Uhuru Kenyatta, the current president of Kenya, is a political text and between its lines is life full of luck doting on a Florence of successful political career. What I mean is Uhuru Kenyatta is a genuine president of Kenya, his stars are not crossed, his work is good, he is not a political sadist nor a masochist, his fiber is purely humane and willing to serve Kenya and humanity in general. The thieves that are taking advantages of his benevolent character must not make the world to mistake him, he is genuine and Raila Odinga cannot be his substitute in the political socialization of Kenya.
Kenya has enjoyed diplomatic dignity during his first term more than it has ever enjoyed before. Structural changes are progressive and his vision is much energized with his youthful vigor. His life in politics is not an outcome of life and death struggle. He is what he is because gods and spirits of Kenya’s political ancestry felt so. Thus, he deserves a second term. Not out of any wrong judgment but on the basis of his generous distribution of national resources across Kenya with a non-fathomable democratic space. Raila Odinga must learn this and support him for the second term for the sake of national dignity.
Raila Odinga has been struggling like his father against personal fate, curse and death in a stretch towards becoming the president. He has never succeeded; he is ever challenged like Milton Obote of Uganda. His father even adjusted and cried for presidency of Kenya lasting just for a day but it never happened. Raila also wept in 2007 it did not happen. God knows the type of political instability, social skullduggery and executive falstafity and ideological utopia that Kenya and even East Africa can go through when the Odinga’s are in the presidential incumbency of Kenya . The Odinga’s can make good writers as already evinced in the ‘Not yet Uhuru’ and the ‘Flame of Freedom’, but not good political leaders to the level of the president. Let them stay in business as observed in the matchless east African gas cylinders company and the fore cited literatures.
Raila has been feigning volubly by accusing President Uhuru Kenyatta for practicing exclusive governance. Yet he is an expert in this game of political and social exclusion. He only uses the Luhyia Community in western province as a source of votes for his political power so that he can take development projects like factories and airport to his home in Luo Nyanza. The Odinga family has been a betrayal to Luhyia Political and economic struggle, It is Odinga that took Kitale to Trans Nzoia and Maseno to Kisumu away from the Luhyia community, it is Odinga that was silent when Pan Paper mills collapsed, It is Odinga that often betrayed Masinde Muliro and it is Raila Odinga in his lewd selfishness and political megalomania that he swashbucklingly humiliated Michael Wamalwa as a way of betraying him politically. No benefit will come to the Luhyia community from their political flirtation with the Odinga cult for power.Luhyias should vote for Uhuru Kenyatta in a dint as an expression in recognition for the award of the Mumias sugar company, Nzoia Sugar company,Kibabii University and by extension Masinde Muliro University as well as pan African paper mills.
Generally politics need the thorax for rampage and the cunningness for deciphering the traps. Raila is fit when it comes to political militancy, but averagely not intelligent when it comes to un-puzzling cryptic of politics, this makes him not fit for the mentally challenging office like that one of the president of Kenya. He will only prove a clown when exposed to pressure in the shrewdness; diplomatic intrigues and shenanigans that go with this office of the top executive. Let him join other Kenyans to vote for Uhuru Kenyatta in 2017.It will be good.
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