Why Raila needs Mudavadi to negotiate better after the handshake

History tells us that Raila Odinga is excellent at creating the need for negotiation [Photo: Courtesy]

Politics, like investment, does not have hard-and-fast rules on the do’s and don’ts. Invariably, contextual factors come into play to determine the outcomes. It is only the interest that remains constant. The permanent interest is power. What one does with it upon acquiring it is what determines the kind of leader or ruler that he or she becomes.

In November last year, I wrote in this paper, asking Uhuru and Raila to give us back our country. My argument then was, and still is, that the two gentlemen share this country almost on a fifty-fifty basis with respect to proportion of political support that each of them enjoys among registered voters in Kenya. In political philosophy, it can be argued, that neither of them enjoys a higher minimum ethical consent of the people than the other.